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Featured on Berna: Die On Your Feet - by Warren Benedetto - narrated by Chuck McKenzie Window to the Soul - by John O'Keefe - narrated by Tim Borella Sally Lunn's Query Letter - by Wes Parish - narrated by Amelia Leonard Our Audio License AntipodeanSF Radio Show by Ion Newcombe is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Featured Music Feel the Motion of the Air by lukeing forward is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Open Window by Noel Griffin is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. The Beauty of Maths by Meydän is licensed under a Attribution License. Intro & Outro Music Celestial Navigation by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License

The Patina battles a horde of octopuses.Cast: - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She can be found on Twitter at @acquiredchaste and in drag as horror king JOHN on Instagram at @john.is.risen. Penn is an indie TTRPG designer whose most recent work includes SLICE *IT* OUT, a grisly carving RPG about cutting pieces of yourself out to fit in. Check out faer other work at pennharper.itch.io. - Cassidy Shard is played by Sydney Whittington. She is our wonderful editor. She's also a contributing editor and occasional guest player for the Orpheus Protocol, a cosmic horror espionage actual play podcast. Find her on Twitter at @sydney_whitt. - Emma Blackwood is played by Cameron Robertson. Find her on Twitter at @midnightmusic13 and on Instagram at @reading_and_dreaming. Cameron is also a player on Tabletop Squadron, a Star Wars Edge of the Empire actual play podcast. - Birdie Foundling is played by Kit Adames. Find her on Twitter at @venusvultures. Kit is also a voice actor and writer on Elevator Pitch Podcast, a queer genre-hopping anthology podcast that can be accessed on Spotify and YouTube. - Our GM and narrator is Nick Robertson. Find him on Twitter at @alias58. Nick is also the GM for Tabletop Squadron and can also be found as a player on the Orpheus Protocol.Music & Sound Credits: - This podcast features the musical talents of Dora Violet and Arne Parrott. You can find Dora at facebook.com/doraviolett. You can find Arne at atptunes.com. - old radio Channel search sound effect by Garuda1982. Link & License. - Dripping (Zoom) » Dripping, Slow, A.wav by InspectorJ. Link & License. - Barbeque lid.wav by Key rusher. Link & License. - Tramontana by Julia Kent. Link & License. - The Beauty of Maths by Meydӓn. Link & License.Art Credits: - The official artwork for this podcast was created by Rashed AlAkroka, who can be found on Instagram and Artstation @rashedjrs.Find Us Online: - Our Website - Twitter - Join our Patreon - Join our Discord

Friends we are BACK ON OUR BULLSHIT. This episode is long overdue because Deondre' got married back in October and we recorded it back in November and now it is June. But fear not, we still have evergreen content for you all in the form of being messy and talking about our ex's, talking about the vision that we have for our romantic lives and what happens when straight boys read bell hooks. There has been a lot of evolution in Deondre's life in particular; when I (Isabel) first met him, I thought there was no way he was ever going to get married, not because he isn't an eligible bachelor but because he didn't feel very bought into marraige as an institution. I thought we were doing to be ride or die sluts. But now all that has changed: Deondre' is vying for that white picket fence dream. We'll see if he gets it.Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. Links:Deondre's Wedding Vendors: Moontide Sundries: https://moontidesundries.com/Photos from the Harty: https://www.photosfromtheharty.com/Mimosa Barn: https://www.facebook.com/MimosaBarn/Aven: https://www.instagram.com/aven/?hl=en --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

Featured on Beckman: The Word for Home - by Christopher R. Muscato Bavards - by Son Le Our Audio License AntipodeanSF Radio Show by Ion Newcombe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.antisf.com.au. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.antisf.com.au/contact-editor Music Credits Home by Julian Winter is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Fae by Meydän is licensed under a Attribution License. Intro & Outro Music Celestial Navigation by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License

It has been an actually ridiculous amount of time since we last posted an episode, but we are back! And we are back with another installment of Millennials Lust After Their College Walkable Community! We recorded this episode back in October 2023 about a camp what Mike Wheeler and Stephanie Logan put together called Camp Logwheel that Isabel attended in Septemer, and now that are already planning their next one for May, in a few short months. We talk to Mike and Stephanie about what their community-building goals were for this camp, and the main thesis is that, if you think you are the only one who wants to build community, you're NOT. You may be more or less willing than some of your friends to sacrifice and invest in the community but you're certainly surrounded by people who are lusting for more community. Stephanie tells us about her community growing up: her parents went to church, and though she wasn't fond of sitting in a pew listening to sermons, she did love being part of a community. Mike was an RA (Residential Assistant) in college and he would leave his door open all the time, sometimes to come back from class and find his residents in his room playing on his GameCube, which he loved! So now we are in or almost in our 30's and we are trying to figure out how to make these kinds of communities happen for us again, or at least get as close an approximation of it as we can. Mike knows friends whose parents moved away from their college friends in their 20s, only to decide to ask all of their friends to move in close to them, and they actually did! So maybe, even though it can seem so unlikely in a world where social ties are simply growing weaker and the loneliness crisis is accelerating, our dreams of multigenerational communities who gather regularly for potlucks and take care of each other's children is actually achievable: maybe all we need to do is ask. Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

Face à la violence du monde carniste contre les autres animaux, mais aussi face à la répression sociale cherchant à réduire au silence les véganes qui affirment leur solidarité politique avec les autres animaux et s'engagent contre leur exploitation, on est souvent traversé-es par des émotions difficiles, en particulier pendant les 'fêtes' de fin d'année où le massacre est accentué et où les retrouvailles avec des proches carnistes peuvent être source d'incompréhension, de tensions voire de harcèlement et de violence... Face à ces expériences qui nous réunissent, il est d'autant plus important de rester solidaires entre véganes, de se soutenir dans les moments difficiles pour tenir le coup dans le combat contre le spécisme toute l'année. Force à nous, et je suis de tout coeur avec vous si c'est difficile... _______ ÉPISODE SPÉCIAL [Rediffusion] T'es pas seul·e, on est là, on est plein, et on va rien lâcher ! 0:00 : Intro 3:31 : Deuil 6:46 : Colère 14:00 : Résistance 19:22 : Solitude 23:31 : Lutte 27:48 : Liberté ________________________________ Références et sources citées dans l'entretien : - le site https://vegan-pratique.fr - les fiches info de Florence Dellerie : https://questionsanimalistes.com/fich... - Intervention de Virginie Despentes le 16 octobre 2020 au Centre Pompidou :   / lecture-de-virginie-despentes-ctre-pompido...   - Faut-il manger les animaux ? - Jonathan Safran Foer - "Choisir ou être libre ?" - Guillaume Carnino - "Vous êtes l'impasse d'une histoire triste. Nous sommes les lendemains qui chantent » (Hugo Partouche et Pablo Pillaud-Vivien dans leur tribune « Nous sommes ces gens-là ») : https://www.nouvelobs.com/tribunes/20... Merci beaucoup à Joseph, Catherine, José, Adrien, Thibaut, Céline et Javi pour les voix carnistes Un immense merci à Joseph Jaccaz pour la composition finale ! ________________________________ SOUTENIR : https://linktr.ee/poissonpodcast Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast indépendant et sans publicité : votre soutien est indispensable pour qu'il puisse continuer à exister. Merci d'avance ! Les comptes Instagram, Twitter, Facebook et Mastodon du podcast sont également à retrouver dans le link tree ! ________________________________ CRÉDITS Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast créé et animé par Victor Duran-Le Peuch. Charte graphique : Ivan Ocaña Musique : Laconisme par Maydän / Insomnia par Nomyn / Current par Meydän / Night par Kosmorider / Exhale par Nomyn / I'm Free par Waroxe / Résistance par Meydän / Sensé par Meydän / Synthwave Vibe par Meydän / Short Circuit par Meydän / I Can't Stop par PunchDeck / To the Moon par Joseph Jaccaz

The F Squad heads to Furygale, where a duel between Rampart Sooviij & Javenesh Stoutclaw is scheduled to take place. Roleplay Radio's WorldAnvil: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/roleplay-radio3A-strixhaven-roleplayradio   Roleplay Radio's Discord Server: https://discord.gg/DfgN9D2fKb   Roleplay Radio is an improvised narrative-based TTRPG podcast. Roleplay Radio is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. MUSIC CREDITS: "Serene" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Beilstone” Music by Andreas-Woll-Music from Pixabay “Sneaky Rascal” by David Fesliyan from www.fesliyanstudios.com “What's in the Biscuit Tin” Music by geoffharvey from Pixabay “Fairy Tale Fantasy” Music by Music_For_Videos from Pixabay “Mr Badger” Music by Geoff Harvey from Pixabay “Woodland Tales” Music by Geoff Harvey from Pixabay “Sneaking in the Warehouse” Music by brolefilmer from Pixabay "Deadly Roulette" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Bugs in the Attic” by Matt Stewart-Evans License code: DVUKNZ9XV953LFAC   “Sneaky Feet” Music by geoffharvey from Pixabay   Short but Strong by Savfk https://www.free-stock-music.com/savfk-short-but-strong.html   Comedy Cinematic Inspiring Music by RomanSenykMusic from Pixabay  "The Other Side of the Door" Kevin MacLeod "Decline" Kevin MacLeod "Hot Pursuit" Kevin MacLeod “Scary Spooky Creepy Horror Ambient Dark Piano Cinematic” Music by SoundGalleryByDmitryTaras from Pixabay   Dances and Dames Kevin MacLeod “Creepy” by Pecan Pie License code: XCOZB4ZUJXTYZ4CH   “The Epic Hip Hop” Music by Anton_Vlasov from Pixabay “Dramatic Hop Hip Beat” Music by White_Records from Pixabay “In the Hall of the Metal King” Music by nakaradaalexander from Pixabay "Not As It Seems" Kevin MacLeod “Old West Gunslingers” by David Fesliyan   Midsummer's Night in the Woods by Justin Allan Arnold | https://www.ifnessfreemusic.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   “The Sorcerer's Apprentice” by Richard Bodgers License code: OCNGWTM8IE6E8FGP   “Battle Metal” Music by nakaradaalexander from PixaBay "Unholy Knight" Kevin MacLeod   Witch by Damiano Baldoni | https://soundcloud.com/damiano_baldoni Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   “Ska of the Mountain King” License code: LAXCXDREWS80CDZM “Funny Background Music for vlog” Music by White_Records from Pixabay “Sleuthing in the Dark” by David Fesliyan “Creepy Mood” Music by SoulProdMusic “Looming” by Yeti music License code: HJ9FVG74WFSAHDHG   I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod Contemplate the stars by Meydän | https://linktr.ee/meydan Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Track: Wrong Answer Music by https://www.fiftysounds.com

This is a continuation of the previous episode from last week, and in this part of the conversation we UNPACK some SHIT. We talk about what happens when you are happily in an undefined relationship, and then eventually society comes along and peers in the window and asks you WHAT YOU ARE. This has been a particular frustration for Isabel recently, and so a lot of this episode is shooting the shit about our relationships and what is important about them to us. We also continue talking about the importance of the middle tier friend, which is a friend who is not your best or closest friend, but someone who is just a solid friend that you can talk with regularly and there's never any drama because the stakes aren't too high with middle tier friends. Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

In this episode we talk about what we personally value when meeting another human being, and if there are particular factors that we find particularly revealing when it comes to a new person's personality, whether it be a potential lover or a new friend. Deondre' is all vibes. Can they talk about something interesting at length, do they laugh? Isabel really things birth order effects (whether you are the first child if you have siblings, or whether you are an only child) can be a really big part of determining one's personality as well. We also talk a lot about relationships and how the social dynamics are changing such that women really stand to lose to much more when entering into cishetero relationships because single women are the happiest women in America, and single men are much less happy compared to their partnered counterparts. Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

Ok that might be a bit of an exaggeration, Cosmo Alto may not be the electron microscopist in the world, or North America, or Manhattan, but he is definitely the best electron microscopist I know. In this episode, Cosmo sits down with us and tells us about the wonderful world of electron microscopy. If you're not familiar, for the majority of scientific history, we were using light microscopes to look at small things, which essentially just utilizes lenses to magnify things to the size where you can see them, like the microscope you probably used in science class. An ELECTRON microscope is used to look at things which are smaller than the wavelength of light! So the things you can look at in an electron microscope are on the picometer scale, which means you can look at the structure of proteins from the brain, for example. The microscope shoots a laser at the proteins and an electron detector receives the electrons that bounce off the protein, forming an image that scientists can then look at and synthesize into their research. Lastly, I always like to ask guests who talk about technology how hard it would be to turn the technology they work on into a weapon: listen on to hear about whether you could turn an electron microscope into a space laser! Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

What factors do you think about when you are deciding where you want to live? This is another one of those life design episodes where we discuss the factors we think about when trying to design how we want to live.When I was at South by Southwest in March, I ran into my friend Eric from high school, who I haven't talked to in like a decade, and his partner Isabella Chiu. She came on the show to talk about how they recently moved to New York after being nomadic for most of the pandemic and living in San Francisco prior to that. They chose New York because they have family on the East Coast they wanted to be closer to, and they also love the bigness of everything. Isabella was also pleasantly surprised by how convenient it was to have everything she could possibly need within a 15 minute walk from their house. We also talk about some of the cons, like the smells and the pressure to be doing everything all of the time. Generally speaking, we talk about which factors are most important to us when deciding on a place to live, ranging from things like crime, proximity to friends, ability to drive around easily, and even just being able to smell fresh air. And at the end you'll also get a bonus little story about Isabella almost missing a flight, Deondre' accidentally going into the women's restroom, and Isabel being hit by a car. Links:Isabella's Blog, "What Would a White Man Do?": https://www.whatwouldawhitemando.com/Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

In this episode Deondre and I (Isabel) talk about this book that Isabel has been reading with her book group called My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem, which talks about how trauma physically manifests itself in the body, and how human beings can try to deal with that trauma using somatic methods like humming together, dancing, and physically settling the body by focusing on breathing. In this book, there is a section that talks about how racism was actually conceived of fairly recently in human history, when white landowners in Virginia were trying to come up with a solution to the class-based unrest amongst the workers. At the time these "bondsmen" were of both white and black skin colors, and had deals with the landowners that said if they worked long enough they could buy their freedom from servitude and be given a parcel of land that they could work themselves. However, the white landowners decided that the best way to appease the masses, who were getting more and more agitated about their economic situation, was to allow the white bondmen to receive land and to deny land to the black ones. This strategy became law in 1619. This makes race one of the craziest acts of evil genius that humans seem to have come up with: those white landowners probably had no idea that their Hunger Games-esque scheme would be a major force throughout all of subsequent American history, they were likely only out to save their own asses. So we talk about whether there are other similar social constructs that have been a force for good in human history, and why it is so difficult to see and appreciate those things as well, when there are so many dastardly human ideas that seem like they are shaping our modernity. Link to My Grandmother's Hands: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34146782 Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

Martin Froger-Silva woke up one day in fall of 2017 to find his Berkeley home surrounded by smoke: it looked like a scene from Blade Runner 2049. He looked outside and the entire sky was red, like he had been transported to the surface of Mars. For weeks on end, due to the California forest fires, Berkeley was in the "purple zone," which is considered the worst zone to be in on the air quality scale, with particulate matter above 300 ppm, or parts per million (if you're interested, you can check out your local air quality here). California was wearing N95 masks long before Covid happened because of these fires. At one point, Martin's partner looked at him and said, "We are breathing in dead people." This was a major wake-up call for Martin, who had been working in immigration at the time: it made him realize he needed to go into working in climate change. He went on to get a graduate degree from Scripps in Environmental Science, and learned a lot about things like how the weather works. We asked him what some of his main recommendations are around what the average person can do about the climate, and his main piece of advice: get involved in local politics to see what climate policies are being considered in your state, and educate yourself on what is most effective. In the climate space, there is a decreasing emphasis on individual accountability as it relates to climate change, and a greater focus on how we can influence companies, whose emissions far outweigh the emissions of individuals in the US. We're starting to realize that this problem can only be solved with serious legislation, as opposed to hoping that our individual consumer actions will save us. One main focus for Martin is public transportation, but there are so many more climate-related areas for the average citizen to focus on. Links: Martin's website: https://www.martinfroger.com/ "The 6th Extinction," by Elizabeth Kolbert: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinction "This Changes Everything," by Naomi Klein: https://thischangeseverything.org/book/ "All We Can Save," an anthology of pieces by 60 women authors about the climate crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkerson: https://www.allwecansave.earth/anthology Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/im-the-villain/support

In a surprising turn of events, the Advantia triggers the facility's security system while the Patina does absolutely nothing wrong.Cast:- Alli Nesbit & Kira Nesbit as Renn & Ciphera. Alli and Kira can be found on their show RPG for You and Me, a duet actual play podcast. Their website rpgforyouandme.com has tons of art from the show, character bios, custom setting rules, and more! You can also find Alli and Kira on Sounds Like Crowes: Terminus and The Night Shift podcast, not to mention Alli now helms Dark Matter Magazine podcast. You can chat with Alli on twitter @youseethehat and @rpgforyouandme, but Kira is accessible through the show's Patron exclusive discord, found at patreon.com/rpgforyouandme. - Marathon Messenger is played by Penn Van Batavia. She's an indie TTRPG designer who just launched a new game, Wasmannian, a solo RPG about bees, wasps, and otherness in a binary world. You can find Penn on Twitter at @acquiredchaste. - Cassidy Shard is played by Sydney Whittington. She also edits the show. Find her on Twitter at @sydney_whitt. - Emma Blackwood is played by Cameron Robertson. Find her on Twitter at @midnightmusic13 and on Instagram at @reading_and_dreaming. Cameron is also a player on Tabletop Squadron, a Star Wars Edge of the Empire actual play podcast. - Birdie Foundling is played by Kit Adames. Find her on Twitter at @venusvultures. Kit is also a voice actor and writer on Elevator Pitch Podcast, a queer genre-hopping anthology podcast. - Our GM and narrator is Nick Robertson. Find him on Twitter at @alias58. Nick is also the GM for Tabletop Squadron, which you can support at Patreon.com/TabletopSquadron. Nick can also be found as a player on the Orpheus Protocol.Music & Sound Credits:- This podcast features the musical talents of Dora Violet and Arne Parrott. You can find Dora at facebook.com/doraviolett. You can find Arne at atptunes.com. - old radio Channel search sound effect by Garuda1982. Link & License. - Steel pipes fall on concrete » 34 Wrench on concrete floor, indoor, 5 impacts.wav by Bibow. Link & License. - White Atlantis by Sergey Cheremisinov. License. - The Beauty of Maths by Meydӓn. Link & License. - Uplifting & Upbeat Technology Corporate by RomanSenykMusic. Link & License.Art Credits: - The official artwork for this podcast was created by Rashed AlAkroka, who can be found on Instagram and Artstation @rashedjrs.Find Us Online:- Our Website- Twitter- Join our Patreon- Join our Discord

Terra Nil is a relaxing, and at times taxing, terraforming game about repairing the ecosystem of a decimated world, then cleaning up after yourself and leaving it to flourish. It's a profound, philosophically important, and surprisingly emotional experience. In the roundup: TRON: Identity, Tears of the Kingdom, Horizon: Burning Shores, Tin Hearts, The Last Case of Benedict Fox, Wildfrost, Strayed Lights, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, and more. Music: Terra Nil soundtrack by Meydän. Buy it on Steam, GOG, and elsewhere. And many thanks to the show's latest patrons, Eric & Adam! If you'd like to join them in supporting the show on Patreon, you can do so from $1 per month at http://patreon.com/gaminginthewild. Patrons get access to a catalogue of bonus episodes, and an invite to the show's lovely Discord community. You can also send a one-off tip via Ko-Fi at http://ko-fi.com/gaminginthewild.  All proceeds go into the podcast, covering things like equipment, music, editing apps, and so forth. I really appreciate the support, it really helps make the show better. You can also say hi on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch - find all the links at http://gaminginthewild.com. Check out this Steam curator page of all the games the show has ever covered, made by podcast supporter DovetailTrue: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43457463-Gaming-in-the-Wild-%2528unofficial%2529/   Thanks for listening!

Introducing the “I Am Human. This Is My Dog.” podcast – the show devoted to putting the individual back into the dog, as well as their human, while also examining difficult, and oftentimes controversial, animal welfare related topics that have been largely ignored, but are critical for real progress. In this third episode of the inaugural season, I turn my attention back to the topic of dogfighting in the direct aftermath of the Michael Vick case. For more information about this and future episodes, visit:riverfirefilms.com/podcast  CREDITS:  Produced by: River Fire Films, LLCHosted by: Jeff ThemanIntroduction Voiceover by: Nat Lauzon Introduction Music: “Crimson Fly” by Huma-Huma MUSIC CREDITS: "Somnolence" by Kai Engel | ⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Harbor" by Kai Engel | ⁠⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ "Filaments" by Scott Buckley | released under CC-by 4.0 "Away" by Meydän | released under CC-by 4.0 "Long Way To Go" (Ambient Beautiful Orchestral Music) by Miguel Johnson | released under CC-by 3.0 "Cinematic Documentary Piano" by The Mountain/Dmitrii Kolesnikov "Tired of Life" by Meydän | ⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Modum" by Kai Engel | ⁠⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ “Between” by Meydan | ⁠⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ "Art of Silence" by Uniq | ⁠⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riverfirefilms/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riverfirefilms/support

"I feel like my mother loves me more than she loves herself, and it makes me feel really guilty. Am I bad if I don't love her more than I love myself?" Man, turning 30 does a lot of things to you. This quote is from our conversation with Chelsea Hines, a New Orleans-based musician, screenwriter, and entrepreneur (among many other things) and what started off as a conversation about being a musician and what that entails quickly morphed into a conversation about how to build a life that is worth living. It is increasingly starting to feel as though living your life and having children is mutually exclusive. It's starting to feel like so many of the dreams we once had are unattainable, at least in the ways that we were told to imagine. It is incredibly difficult to balance believing in the individualism and self-reliance that we were taught to aspire to and also build a community where everyone feels safe trusting and relying on each other. Many millennials, and especially straight women, have gone into the dating pool with a lowered sense of trust that they could ever find a partner who would meet their expectations, and be as reliable as they needed them to be. But then if you try to be perfectly independent and not rely on anyone else, then what was it all for? Links: Chelsea's Healtys Herbal Smoking Blend: https://chelseashealthys.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Introducing the “I Am Human. This Is My Dog.” podcast – the show devoted to putting the individual back into the dog, as well as their human, while also examining difficult, and oftentimes controversial, animal welfare related topics that have been largely ignored, but are critical for real progress. In this second episode of the inaugural season, I turn my attention to breed specific legislation and the fight against Lakewood, Ohio's proposed pit bull ban so I can adopt Preston. This episode covers just a few months in 2008 (May-July), but gives the listener an idea of how unsettling these laws can be for those with family pets who are guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of public officials given the power to legislate solely on how a dog looks.  For more information about this and future episodes, visit:riverfirefilms.com/podcast  CREDITS:  Produced by: River Fire Films, LLC Hosted by: Jeff Theman Introduction Voiceover by: Nat Lauzon Introduction Music: “Crimson Fly” by Huma-Huma MUSIC CREDITS: "Celestial" by Scott Buckley | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Lonesome Journey" by Keys of Moon | ⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ "Story" by Meydän | ⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ "Atlantis" by Audionautix "Brand New World" by Kai Engel | ⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ "Chasing Daylight" by Scott Buckley | ⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ "Cinematic Documentary Piano" by The Mountain/Dmitrii Kolesnikov "Dramatic Ambient Cinematic Piano" by Alex MakeMusic/Oleksandr Savochka "Blind" by Meydän | ⁠released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠ "The Preparation" by BatchBug | released under CC-by 3.0 “Between” by Meydan | released under CC-by 4.0⁠⁠⁠ "Cinematic Piano Atmosphere 4" by Musictown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riverfirefilms/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riverfirefilms/support

Kimaya Diggs wants you to ask her about her mother. One thing Kimaya can tell you about her is that before she died, Kimaya decided to take a pottery class, which her mother asked to join in on. She was incredibly prolific: she created around 300 pieces, but didn't like to glaze her work as much as she liked throwing pots. So when she died, she left behind around 60 unglazed pieces that the owner of the studio was nice enough to keep so that Kimaya could glaze them herself and the studio even named a color of glaze after Kimaya's mom. Kimaya's mom grappled with cancer for 12 years and she decided not to tell most people in her life that she had cancer, which was difficult for Kimaya to grapple with. When she found out, she was 16, and her younger sisters were 14 and 10. She immediately started making contingency plans, figuring out when her sister's annual physicals were, getting a driver's license as early as possible in case she would need to drive them to school. Kimaya is a songwriter, and her first album, which came out before her mother died, was about grieving her mother, though she had to sing about it in vague terms. Kimaya had been curious about death from a young age: when she was a child, she would write her will in her school composition notebooks, causing some alarm to her parents. She feels that in a lot of ways she has had an easier time of thinking about her own mortality than her mom did. She writes about her mom a lot nowadays, writing out conversations she never had with her mom as if they were scenes from a play. She struggles with the temptation to write what she herself wishes her mom would have said in these conversations compared to what she thinks her mom would have said in reality. She also wishes that more people would have been supportive to her partner in grief, who she has been together with for 9 years. In many ways, he was grieving his own loss just as much as she was, but she was the only one who got the cards and offers of support from friends and family, and she wasn't as able to support him while he was grieving. She hopes that in the future, offering support to everyone affected by a death, even if it seems like they would not be as obviously affected, will be far more normalized. Kimaya knows her grief will be with her for the rest of her life, and will always do that wack thing where it suddenly and unexpectedly gets super heavy on some days, but at least now she feels like she has a better handle on what she is dealing with. Links: Kimaya's website: https://www.kimayadiggs.com/ Kimaya's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimayadiggs/?hl=en Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Aujourd'hui un épisode crossover inédit entre Comme un poisson dans l'eau et Penser les luttes, le podcast du studio Radio Parleur qui couvre tous les mouvements sociaux ! Il y a quelques mois, on avait gentiment interpellé Radio Parleur sur l'absence de la question du spécisme dans leurs programmes, et iels ont eu la meilleure réaction ever : proposer d'enregistrer un épisode ensemble ! La collaboration avec leurs équipes a été une expérience enrichissante et super agréable, et c'est je crois un exemple de comment un média peut s'emparer du sujet important du spécisme de la meilleure des façons. On reçoit donc, dans cet épisode co-animé avec Martin Bodrero de Radio Parleur, pour se demander dans quelle mesure la lutte contre le spécisme est une lutte ignorée ou négligée parmi toutes les luttes sociales : - Florence Dellerie, autrice, illustratrice scientifique et vulgarisatrice sur les questions d'éthique animale - Amandine Sanvisens, co-fondatrice de l'association Paris Animaux Zoopolis qui lutte contre le spécisme à Paris On revient avec nos invitées sur ce qu'est le spécisme, sur les liens entre la lutte antispéciste et les luttes contre d'autres oppressions et sur les leviers d'action importants pour faire avancer ce combat et enfin obtenir des victoires ! C'est l'occasion de dissiper un certain nombre d'idées reçues : - L'antispécisme fricote avec l'extrême-droite - L'antispécisme est une lutte déconnectée des réalités des ouvrier.es - L'antispécisme n'est pas légitime car les animaux ne défendent pas leurs droits - L'antispécisme est une lutte d'urbains privilégiés et blancs N'hésitez pas à aller faire un tour sur l'article de l'épisode sur le site de Radio parleur également : https://radioparleur.net/2023/02/14/specisme-antispecisme-exploitation-animaux/ Bonne écoute ! ________________________________ Références et sources citées dans l'entretien : - Le documentaire "Les damnés. Des ouvriers en abattoir" (2020) réalisé par Anne-Sophie Reinhardt - Le texte "Les animaux avec nous, nous avec les animaux" écrit par Kaoutar Harchi dans la revue Ballast : https://www.revue-ballast.fr/les-animaux-avec-nous-nous-avec-les-animaux/ - La politique sexuelle de la viande - Carol J. Adams - Ainsi nous leur faisons la guerre - Joseph Andras - L'intervention de Douchka Markovic, représentante du Parti animaliste au Conseil de Paris, prononcé en juillet 2022 et qui s'exprime sur les méthodes non létales pour maîtriser la population des rongeurs Recommandations : - d'Amandine Sanvisens : Le documentaire "Peaceable Kingdom" : http://www.peaceablekingdomfilm.org - de Florence Dellerie : le travail de Dalila Awada, militante féministe, antiraciste et antispéciste qui a notamment co-fondé l'organisation Parole de femmes, notamment cet article « Si la justice exclut les animaux, elle demeure partielle » : https://www.revue-ballast.fr/dalila-awada-si-la-justice-exclut-les-animaux-elle-demeure-partielle/ ________________________________ SOUTENIR : https://linktr.ee/poissonpodcast Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast indépendant et sans publicité : votre soutien est indispensable pour qu'il puisse continuer à exister. Merci d'avance ! Les comptes Instagram, Twitter, Facebook et Mastodon du podcast sont également à retrouver dans le link tree ! CRÉDITS Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast indépendant créé et animé par Victor Duran-Le Peuch. Charte graphique : Ivan Ocaña Générique : Synthwave Vibe par Meydän

When our friend Margot was getting ready to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), she thought she would be bored, and that this was going to be a period when she listened to more audiobooks than she had ever listened to in her life. But it turned out that when she actually started hiking, she didn't feel the need to listen to many audiobooks or music and she had a realization: so much of the world we live in currently can be harsh and grating, like the soundscape of cars and sirens and construction when you go outside in a city. And much of the reason why we may need to wear headphones or distract ourselves from the world around us may be because we are trying to seek comfort away from those harsh externalities. But when you spend every day in nature, you might not need the security blanked of distraction. Hiking the PCT is a notoriously difficult endeavor, that requires months of prep and planning. In Margot's case, she and her partner both quit their jobs, and Margot took a wilderness first aid class and they spent time in the weeks leading up to their departure dehydrating their food and sending care packages of food to different points along the trail where they would be walking. They each got a "trail name" bestowed upon them, which is a nickname you use while on the trail, and got adopted by "trail families," which are groups of people you hike with, which you might have many of if you are hiking the whole thing from start to finish. They even met some "trail fairies" who opened up their homes to Margot and her partner and fed them a meal. Margot and her partner hiked the whole thing in 6 months, a feat that only approximately 25% of PCT hikers can claim to have accomplished: along the way, they saw joshua trees, wore the same change of clothes every day, and Margot even had to perform first aid when one of their trail buddies fell while crossing over an ice bridge and hit his head. And when asked if she would do it again, she said "I would do it tomorrow!" Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Introducing the “I Am Human. This Is My Dog.” podcast – the show devoted to putting the individual back into the dog, as well as their human, while also examining difficult, and oftentimes controversial, animal welfare related topics that have been largely ignored, but are critical for real progress. In this inaugural season, I recount my time as an aspiring filmmaker, whose directorial debut documentary film was intended on examining dogfighting in the immediate aftermath of the 2007 Michael Vick case, but took a detour after meeting a dog named Preston. For more information about this and future episodes, visit: riverfirefilms.com/podcast CREDITS: Produced by: River Fire Films, LLC Hosted by: Jeff Theman Introduction Voiceover by: Nat Lauzon Introduction Music: “Crimson Fly” by Huma-Huma MUSIC CREDITS: "Longer Way To Go" by Miguel Johnson | released under CC-by 3.0 "Adrift Among Infinite Stars" by Scott Buckley | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Decoherence" by Scott Buckley | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Undertow" by Scott Buckley | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ “Court And Page” by Silent Partner "Forest Walk" by Alexander Nakarada | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Blind" by Meydän | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Please Wake Up" by Meydän | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ "Silent Wood" by Purrple Cat | released under CC-by 3.0 “No. 4 Piano Journey” by Esther Abrami  "Celestial" by Scott Buckley | released under CC-by 4.0⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riverfirefilms/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/riverfirefilms/support

We have probably all seen the late stage capitalism memes by now: "Stop glamorizing the grind and start glamorizing whatever this is" is a famous one, though there are many more. In this episode we talk about the societal shift towards glamorizing doing nothing. We talk with Winx Vestrit, a friend who works with Isabel on the board of the National Home Funeral Alliance, about a tweet that really resonated with them which goes: "The girl boss is dead, long live the girl moss (lying on the floor of the forest and being absorbed back into nature)". So much of the rhetoric around burnout and rest in the mainstream culture has been about resting for the purpose of getting back to being productive, but there is also a more anticapitalist movement towards resting for resting's sake, because you as a human deserve rest, or for the purpose of healing from a society that never taught us how to have work-life balance. We talk about how our current mindset will potentially harm us in the future if the economy does begin to shift towards mass unemployment with the automation revolution and what we would all choose to do if we were truly given the choice to do whatever we want. The reset afforded to many remote workers by the pandemic allowed so many people to look inward and think about topics like gender and the nature of society in ways that our parents' generations and many generations before them likely did not have the bandwidth or energy to imagine on the scale that we are now as a generation, simply because they were too exhausted at the end of the day from working. Obviously the Girl Moss tweet is a repudiation of modern-day hustle culture, but we also talk about what would happen if we were suddenly thrust back into a state of needing to grapple with nature, such as in the scenarios posed by the world of Station Eleven, a popular fiction book that talks about what would happen if there was a pandemic that wiped out 99% of the global population, or by Tim Urban on a recent episode of the Lex Fridman podcast where they talk about a hypothetical in which a witch came and took away all of our modern-day technology and we had to re-create society with only the knowledge in our heads now. We decided it probably wouldn't hurt to start learning some survival skills. Links: Girl Moss Tweet (the original tweet seems to be deleted so this is a link to a screenshot from another person's Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/p/Cehw4pmNNGe/ Instagram Isabel References with the Frog with Stilettos and a Mushroom Hat: https://www.instagram.com/maybell.eequay/?hl=en KnowYourMeme Article explaining the "Stop Galmorizing the Grind and Start Galmorizing Whatever This Is" Meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-glamorizing-the-grind-and-start-glamorizing-whatever-this-is Lex Fridman podcast episode with Tim Urban where they talk about the hypothetical in which a witch takes away all our technology: https://lexfridman.com/tim-urban/ We don't talk about this book explicitly, but much of what we talk about in this episode is also discussed in Tricia Hersey's book, "Rest is Resistance": https://thenapministry.com/ National Home Funeral Alliance: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

This episode is a continuation of our last episode with Razi Shaban where he talks about having a major concussion before the pandemic started and how that experience changed his outlook on life. As an ex-Google employee, he had a lot of fun creating and building new things, but after the concussion started prioritizing joy over stress more, and left his job at Google last January. We talked about the difficult project of finding work that truly speaks to you, as he liked his work in many ways but started finding it difficult to find meaningful computer work to do that wasn't contributing to a potential fascist project. But at the same time, it is a blessing to have stability, and having a job you can clock in and clock out of, with a degree of non-attachment, can be tremendously freeing. We also talk about the differences he has found between eastern and western medicine. Living in San Francisco and working at Google afforded him the ability to go to the top neurologists in the country but they were never able to offer him much, which made him realize that the western model doesn't understand the brain nearly as well as the eastern model does. When it comes to traumatic brain injury, there usually isn't a convenient pill you can take to solve the problem, but when he went to an eastern medicine practitioner, they told him to move the chi in his head down to the root, to focus on the breathe, to "sleep without sleeping." And there were immediate, effective, and repeatable results. Links: Razi's Website: https://www.therazy.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

HAPPY NEW YEAR TM POD LISTENERS! This episode I say goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023 with some reflections and projections on them both. The bulk of the episode is dedicated to examining the non-dual perspective that has so informed and made possible the transformation I've experienced since a profound depressive episode at the end of 2021. Hopefully some of what I share is useful and helpful to listeners who might struggle with being ok and finding joy in their lives. Here's some of the names I mention in the episode: ‘Seeds of Consciousness' ‘I Am That' collected talks by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Rupert Spira on Youtube Wisdom of the Masters podcast THANK YOU for listening and for supporting the pod! Music: Surreal Forest by Meydän | https://linktr.ee/meydan Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusic Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-traeger/support

ÉPISODE SPÉCIAL T'es pas seul·e, on est là, on est plein, et on va rien lâcher ! 0:00 : Intro 3:31 : Deuil 6:46 : Colère 14:00 : Résistance 19:22 : Solitude 23:31 : Lutte 27:48 : Liberté ________________________________ Références et sources citées dans l'entretien : - le site https://vegan-pratique.fr - les fiches info de Florence Dellerie : https://questionsanimalistes.com/fiches-info/ - Intervention de Virginie Despentes le 16 octobre 2020 au Centre Pompidou : https://soundcloud.com/direction-avant-scene/lecture-de-virginie-despentes-ctre-pompidou-16-10-20 - Faut-il manger les animaux ? - Jonathan Safran Foer - "Choisir ou être libre ?" - Guillaume Carnino - "Vous êtes l'impasse d'une histoire triste. Nous sommes les lendemains qui chantent » (Hugo Partouche et Pablo Pillaud-Vivien dans leur tribune « Nous sommes ces gens-là ») : https://www.nouvelobs.com/tribunes/20220717.OBS61002/nous-sommes-ces-gens-la.html Merci beaucoup à Joseph, Catherine, José, Adrien, Thibaut, Céline et Javi pour les voix carnistes Un immense merci à Joseph Jaccaz pour la composition finale ! ________________________________ SOUTENIR : https://linktr.ee/poissonpodcast Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast indépendant et sans publicité : votre soutien est indispensable pour qu'il puisse continuer à exister. Merci d'avance ! Les comptes Instagram, Twitter, Facebook et Mastodon du podcast sont également à retrouver dans le link tree ! ______________________________ CRÉDITS Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast créé et animé par Victor Duran-Le Peuch. Charte graphique : Ivan Ocaña Musique : Laconisme par Maydän / Insomnia par Nomyn / Current par Meydän / Night par Kosmorider / Exhale par Nomyn / I'm Free par Waroxe / Résistance par Meydän / Sensé par Meydän / Synthwave Vibe par Meydän / Short Circuit par Meydän / I Can't Stop par PunchDeck / To the Moon par Joseph Jaccaz

Traumatic brain injury can change your entire relationship with the outside world. That's what happened to Razi, who has sustained multiple concussions throughout his life starting in college, but suffered his worst concussion in 2019, right before the pandemic. When that happened, he was completely knocked out of his normal routine: for months, all he could do was sit in the bathtub with no light, maybe a candle. He likens this experience to going back to the womb. But it also highlighted to him how much the modern world we have built is constantly at war with our bodies and our biology: for example, artificial light is a fairly recent phenomenon in human history, and our almost constant exposure to it is so vastly different from the "natural" light environment we evolved to be in, where the sun shines so many different kinds of light on us throughout the day that our biological clocks have grown to be naturally attuned to. And artificial light has forced us to ignore these biological signals we evolved to have to be able to be productive and entertained long into the night. Another example is being able to travel around in cars and trains: modern transportation is very loud, can go very fast, and for most animals would be a relatively scary and traumatizing experience that we have completely grown accustomed to. It makes you think about how many other things in our daily lives condition us to ignore signals from our own bodies. We will continue this conversation next week in Part 2 of the concussion episode. Links: Razi's Website: https://www.therazy.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Today, learn all about an accomplished female Mexican surrealist (–no, not that one). In this episode, Lauren paints a portrait of Remedios Varo, and later, gives us a quiz about artist's biopics! . . . [Music: 1) Meydän, “Surreal Forest,” 2018. Courtesy of Meydän, CC BY 4.0 license; 2) Frau Holle, “Ascending Souls,” 2017. Courtesy of Frau Holle, CC BY-NC 3.0 license.]

There's a lot of episodes we've had about major life pivots: Andy Reinhold (Episode 78) talked about how he started in consulting, quit his job to follow his passion and work in gaming, and then went back to consulting to support his baby. Sara Alepin (Episode 123) wanted to be a teacher, but after a student stomped on her foot and left her permanently unable to walk more than a few hours a day without pain, she pivoted to being a wedding photographer, podcaster, and running a businesses community. Ayana Major Bey (Episode 134) wanted to be an actor in plays and then a global pandemic hit. Aaron Matis' story is a bit of a meld between Sara and Ayana's stories: he dreamed of being an actor, and at 26, he was cast in a show on Nickolodeon. He had succeeded in almost everything on his 5-year plan: "I was peaking in every measurable way." Then, one fateful day, he was walking down a hill with a cooler and fell and tore his meniscus. This one fall changed the course of his life forever. 3 surgeries later, and his doctors say he will likely never run again. He moved back home to Scranton from LA and is starting on his next 5-year plan: one that doesn't involve acting. He tells us about the sheer amount of self-hatred that came after his surgery, and how it was so difficult to accept help from those supporting him: "I so much hated myself that I started to resent people that loved me because I thought there must be something wrong with them." He thinks of his former self as a completely different person, and in therapy, he has managed to go through the process of grieving that former self and that former vision he had of what his life was going to look like. But he also talks about the process of rediscovering joy and trying to find happiness in simply being around the people he loves, and not worrying so much about what physical activity they may be doing. He talks about being able to empathize in a new way with his sister, who has a rare condition that causes debilitating bouts of pain, and has found a community in online groups for people who suffer from chronic pain. "I'm not the happiest that I have ever been...but I am getting there." Links: PALS Programs, a camp for kids with Down Syndrome that Aaron has worked with and loves: https://www.palsprograms.org/ Deondre's new show, 3Disc Changer, a podcast where three friends take a deep dive into an iconic album each episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-disc-changer/id1644161173 Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

This might be a little old because everything is a blip in the news cycle and yesterday's news is forgotten in like 24 hours, but we recorded this at the time that the Black Little Mermaid stuff was going on but only got to releasing it now. In this episode, we talk about how Disney has actually turned into...a kind of great company despite its historic levels of shittiness? We liken it to Krispy Kreme, which was totally able to bounce back from the fact that they used to use forced labor to make their treats and were basically run by Nazis. Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

As some of you may know, Deondre' LOVES listening to true crime podcasts and so was very excited to have today's guest, Joy Scaglione, the host of the Bite-Sized Crime Podcast, on our show. We cover a lot in this episode: How does true crime reflect the broader inequalities in our society and spur a conversation around how to avoid these dangerous or deadly situations by raising our children to have better awarenesses of mental health and emotional regulation? How does true crime interact with the carceral system? If we funded schools and mental health, how would that affect these types of crimes? Is true crime really just a reflection of the gladiator effect of being mesmerized by public violence and drawing recreational and entertainment value out of it at the expense of the victim's families, who have to be re-traumatized every time they hear their families' stories re-enacted in the public square? Much of true crime involves intimate partner violence, so it's not just how we parent our children, it's how we choose our romantic partners and spouses, and how we have public conversations about mental health. Thankfully, we are now having a much more robust conversation as a society about how to spot red flags in your partner, and it's producing much healthier relationships, which will hopefully lower the number of domestic violence cases and murders. Links: Joy's podcast, Bite-Sized Crime: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bite-sized-crime/id1575638833 Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

In last week's episode, we featured the first part of this conversation with Kenny Wical so if you missed it, you will want to take a listen to that one before you listen to this! In this episode, Kenny talks about ways that privilege manifests itself in his life, because there is a lot of pressure to conform to cis-normative standards of masculinity in the South even among people in the queer community. There's this notion that you can always push the shame and oppression to people farther down on the social ladder than you and even though he is genderfluid, there's a lot of experiences he has had where he initially is granted male privilege by a stranger, and the more they talk to him and see how much he doesn't perform masculinity, the more he sees that esteem they originally granted him melt away before his eyes. Last week we started talking about the common advice that queer people in the South get to move to a more progressive place like New York City so they can be themselves more without the fear of (as much) oppression. While that has long been a really tempting proposition for Kenny, more recently he has been feeling the desire to nurture his roots in Raleigh, NC, because as a queer person it can be super freeing and heady to go to a more queer-accepting place like NYC where there's tons of out and proud queer people having awesome gay parties, but those same houses and parties need to be built in the South too. It obviously takes a lot more work and community-building can be a very thankless job, especially when you are dealing with a population that has more general trauma, which can make a lot of community-building really difficult because it's a process that inherently requires trust. But it's a necessary task. There's so many people in the South and other places in the world who don't have the privilege, financial, stability, or interest in just picking up and moving to a more progressive place, and if more people did that, those places in the South would be that much worse for the queer people left behind. This is that investing in your community looks like. Links: Kenny's website: http://kwical.com/ Kenny's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okaykennyray/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Kenny knew he was gay pretty much all his life, and has lived in Fayetteville, North Caroline, and then Raleigh North Carolina for the last 11 years. He talks to us about what his experience has been being gay in the South, especially given that a lot of the rest of the US considers the South a lost cause from a gay rights standpoint. When he first came out at the beginning of high school, the first people he came out to were his nerd friends on Gaia Online, an online community for anime fans where you could dress up your avatar with accessories from your favorite anime series. He describes this as a very common experience when you're queer in a more conservative area, because when you're gay it can feel like you're the only one, and online you have access to so many more people who are like you. We also get into the conversation around the North's perception that the South is so much more homophobic and racist than the North, to the degree that a lot of Black friends Deondre' has talked to in the North literally try to avoid going to the South because they are afraid they are going to get hate crimed in some way. However, there is racism and homophobia in all parts of the US and at least in Deondre's experience, the South can actually feel even more comfortable because the majority of Black people in the US do live in the South and he feels more comfortable in spaces where there are more people of color, as opposed to a lot of the places he has travelled to in the North where he is the only Black person in the room or on the block. Obviously the comparison of racism and homophobia is very apples to oranges in a lot of ways, but we get into the ways in which they manifest differently, and Kenny talks about a specific instance that highlighted the real importance of intersectionality to him. There's a huge frustration with progressives who say that they believe in gay rights or anti-racism but then essentially tell people in the South "What did you expect? You live in the South! Just leave." because that's exactly what the conservatives in the South want, is for the gay people to all move to more progressive places and get out of their hair. And a lot of the places in the world that have implemented progressive policies, like the Scandinavian countries, were only able to do that because they are very ethnically homogenous and those progressive policies are about to be tested as we have more and more climate refugees. The bottom line is that any progressives who believe in either anti-racism or gay rights would be remiss to dismiss the South as a lost cause, just because the South votes more conservatively. You'll also hear some stories about petty times we have either fucked with someone's life (such as putting oreos on a nemesis' windshield), inadvertently fucked with our own life (Deondre' had someone accidentally leave raw salmon in his microwave in college and they couldn't find it for weeks), or would hypothetically fuck with someone else's life (such as by putting sugar in someone's gas tank, which then caramelizes and totals the car). This was a long conversation so tune in next week to hear Part 2! Links: When Deondre' is talking about his story about the raw salmon in the microwave, we mention a "Dolly Zoom" and if you aren't familiar with this term, you can watch this quick YouTube video explaining the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JBlwlnJX0 Kenny's website: http://kwical.com/ Kenny's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okaykennyray/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

In this episode, we sit down with Hannah De Groot, one of Isabel's old friends from high school, to talk about how her experience in political organizing turned into a job in political consulting. We've been wanting to talk to someone on the "inside" of politics for a long time, because much of this podcast is spent decrying the futility of trying to engage with American politics, when in reality, when you talk to people who actually work in this space, it doesn't seem futile at all. It can definitely seem challenging, but when you are working with other people who are addressing the challenge and separating it into manageable parts, it can be much easier to stop the cycle of despair. But the social support of other organizers is also crucial because, as Hannah points out, MAGA Republicans are no longer an anomaly: they are running in almost every red state. Hannah's political organizing experience is also unique because she has lupus, which usually hits women hardest in their early 20's, and saps a lot of your energy, which makes it hard to do a lot of the typical activities associated with political organizing such as knocking on doors. The pandemic actually provided an opportunity in that respect because during the pandemic a lot of organizers had to resort to calling and texting potential voters instead, which was more accessible to her. Links: The 2 organizations Hannah recommends at the end of this episode are People's Action (for progressive organizers who are interested in deep canvassing) https://peoplesaction.org/ Vote Save America (a group working to mobilize voters around the midterms) https://votesaveamerica.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Becca Wood is a business coach and Squarespace website designer. She is also the host of the "Probably Bothered" podcast where she breaks down all of the things that bother her about her industry. In this episode, we talk about how so many people who go into business do into it because there is something that bothers them about working as an employee, but then when they go into business there's a whole new set of hurdles that they have to face, such as a lack of a community, and a very narrow definition of what being "successful" really means to you - and most of those definitions have to do with money. We talk through coming to the right balance between trying to solve social problems that have a real impact on the world and our society and actually designing the kind of life you want to live at the same time, which can result in some very direct tradeoffs. Links: Becca's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iambeccasimone Becca's Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/probablybothered/ Becca's Podcast Website: https://www.beccawood.com/business-podcast-rebel-entrepreneurs Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Ayana Major Bey had a major reckoning when the pandemic hit. Ayana has been a musical theater actor, a "straight play" actor (which is what they call non-musical theater plays in the theater world), and is now a voice actor. She talks us through the process of figuring out her career: she got a masters, has worked on cruise ships for up to 10 months at a time where she had to be in Barcelona every Saturday, and mentors other artists on how to design a career they enjoy. She was super lucky when the pandemic hit compared to a lot of her peers because a few months before the pandemic hit she found her voice acting manager, or rather her voice acting manager found her. She has been doing voice acting ever since and has been loving the freedom and flexibility it gives her. But she has been wondering how to do all the things that she loves to do without the sacrifices that typically come with them. How do you be an actor without it crushing your soul? Links: Ayana's Podcast, the Artist Pivot: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-artist-pivot/id1528786107 Ayana's Instagram handles: Personal: @ayanambey Podcast: @theartistpivot Ayana's Website: https://www.ayanabey.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

As a follow-up to the dating coach episode, where our longtime guest Shreye spoke to us about what he learned from going to a dating coach (Episode 125 if you missed it), he is now back on the show to talk to us about his experience with a style coach named Patrick, who Shreye flew to Scottsdale, Arizona to meet in person with his entire wardrobe in tow. Shreye got Patrick's most extensive package, which covered a style consult that covered the perfect color palette for Shreye's skin tone, a shopping trip where Patrick had already pre-selected clothes for Shreye to try on and get custom tailored if necessary, and a final photo shoot with Shreye's fancy new clothes. Patrick even helped Shreye donate all of his old clothes that didn't fit him well before he flew back. Shreye talks about the evolution of his style journey and why he wanted to take these steps at this point in his life, how his makeover has been received by friends (though of course he doesn't have enough data to prove any kind of causality - if you would like to take part in an informal survey to tell us what you think of Shreye's before-and-after shots, send us an email at imthevillainpod@gmail.com), and his thoughts on whether you should wear Chacos on a first date. Links: Men's Fashion Reddit that Shreye references: https://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/ Hasan Minaj gets style advice from Tan France of Queer Eye: https://youtu.be/uFhRONeopbQ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Since we have been on a series of pretty heavy episodes recently, we decided it would be a good idea to lighten the mood a little bit and talk about the NYT's 36 Questions to Make You Fall in Love, or as they have recently backtracked it to, perhaps because they thought their original headline was too much, the "36 Questions that Lead to Love." If you haven't heard of this article before, when it came out back in 2015, everyone was asking these questions to their dates, though we discuss on this episode whether we think a lot of these questions should really be considered first date material. Or even if knowing someone better necessarily means you're more likely to fall in love with them...it might actually leave you wanting to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. Note: Isabel at this time was fostering 7 small kittens, so throughout the episode, you may hear them mewing. Sorry about that. Links: The New York Times's article, "36 Questions that Lead to Love": https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion of early childhood rape, sexual assault, and incest. This is a continuation of our conversation last week with Sunshine, so if you missed last week's episode, listen to that before listening to this. Even more so that last week's episode, this conversation is HEAVY. Sunshine talks about her experience coping with sexual trauma, and how her therapist actually gave her the best suggestion of all time: join the BDSM community. Her whole life, she has been trying to figure out how to have a healthy relationship with sex and intimacy, and so much of what society has told her is to erase the parts of herself that are considered "deviant" and the kink community offered another option: embrace it. Definitely make sure consent is king, but within that, there are ways to cope with sexual trauma that don't look like the "mainstream" societal picture of what sex should be. When asked for what she would want to say to her younger self, she says this: There is no such thing as deviancy. Links: National Sexual Assault Hotline: https://www.rainn.org/resources Woman Against Rape (not recommended per se but was mentioned in the episode): https://womenagainstrape.net/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Trigger Warning: This episode mentions rape and sexual assault. This is a heavy episode, and next week's episode will be even heavier. We sit down with Isabel's friend Sunshine to talk about being an artist and the ways in which art can help you process trauma, in this case sexual trauma, and how that very personal expression of self interfaces with the consumers of your art and the outside world. Sunshine displays her art in many different types of venues: she will display her art in the park on the weekends, but she has also had art acquired by corporate art purchasers, such as the FMC building, which is a skyscraper in Philadelphia. She describes some unexpectedly intense reactions some people have had to her art, from a gaggle of passing frat bros being moved by one of her more abstract paintings about rape, to a woman in a gallery who would up purchasing Sunshine's whole exhibition. We talk about the complicated relationship between art and capitalism, and ultimately for Sunshine, being able to translate that trauma into a means of survival is empowering. Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Well, it happened: Roe got overturned. Just like we knew it would. We have talked a lot about our revolutionary thinking on this show, and used this platform to document the major points of political radicalization we have had since the show started: for Isabel, it was when RBG died, for Deondre' it is now. We talk about what we think needs to change in American politics, mainly about the Supreme Court, and we discuss how our thinking has evolved on what strategies might be most effective in producing change going forward. We are still working through how we are going to be involved personally, and so if you have suggestions for organizations that are doing work with a real structural impact, please let us know! Links: Article from the New Yorker on "Roe's Final Hours in One of America's Largest Abortion Clinics": https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/roes-final-hours-in-one-of-americas-largest-abortion-clinics Interview Deondre' mentions with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin on resistance strategies and how to become ungovernable: https://blackrosefed.org/ungovernable-interview-lorenzo-komboa-ervin-anderson/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

We feel like more and more people have been talking bout introversion vs. extroversion as a paradigm for categorizing people now, which probably started out because of the popularity of the Myers-Briggs, but also has been redefined more recently, or perhaps this definition has simply made it more into the mainstream: many people are resonating with the idea of introversion as deriving your energy from being alone, and extroversion as deriving your energy from being around other people. In this episode, we talk with Krista Walsh, who identifies as an introvert, about what our society gets wrong about introverts, and why they are actually great business leaders, politicians, and should generally run the world. It seems like with the internet came more conversation about introverts and their superpowers, perhaps because more introverts frequent online spaces, although Krista points out that being on Twitter can feel like a very draining, extroverted space as well, given the plethora of headlines and hot takes and the dearth of nuance. We talk about how the pandemic has affected our personalities and mentalities around introversion and extroversion, and share stories about the lengths we will go to get out of social situations we don't want to be in - in some cases all you have to do is jump out of the car! Links: Krista's website: https://kristawalshcopywriter.com/quicklinks/ Tiktok where guy chokes on boba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z74-9gDhkZs Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Isabel got invited to an astrology party and so in this episode we talk about the rise in popularity of astrology and why we think it has been so trendy even though we think it is kind of bullshit and also why it might be useful in your life even if you think it is kind of bullshit. We also talk about the general category of similar personality categorizers such as enneagram, Myers-Briggs, DISC, and other random personality paradigms that people use and why they might be useful or not. Deondre's favorite is enneagram, and says he is a Type 2 Wing 3, and Isabel has been told she is a Type 8. This leads us into a broader conversation about our desire to organize the world when we generally feel like there are all of these crises all happening at once, and how maybe all of these silly little personality quizzes and our desire to grow basil and be little cottagecore fairies in the woods might stem from a darker, more survivalist place even though the manifestation might actually look pretty cute and harmless. Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Sara Alepin is back in this exciting episode about the wedding industry, as she has been a wedding photographer for over 10 years. She has ALL the stories, from wedding SNAFU's (one major tip she had to share: Shout wipes are better than Tide pens at removing stains right before the wedding photos!) to all the beautiful celebrations she has attended. Her hot take on weddings is that while you might think that the day is all about you, and nobody else, that mentality can really backfire on you because it often is a celebration you are throwing to unite your friends and families and if you ignore those people's opinions, it often makes the more softhearted person in the couple suffer, because that's who people come to with the complaints. This was a well-timed piece of advice for Deondre' who had just expressed 20 minutes earlier in the episode how excited he was to be the asshole to anyone who wanted input on his wedding outside of him and his partner. Links: Sara's wedding podcast, "The Wedding Dish": https://theweddingdish.podbean.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Do you know the moment when you feel as if you don't understand something, and then something just clicks? What do you do when the thing you are confused about is dating? Is it possible to help coach someone who hasn't had a lot of success at dating to get something as complex as flirting to "click"? That's exactly what Shreye Saxena wanted to figure out when he went to a dating coach recently. Her class was appealing to the specific niche of cis-het men trying to figure out how to date women, and she has a question on her FAQ page relating to whether her method works for Indian men specifically because Indian men tend to perform worse than other demographics on dating apps. Does Shreye think it was worth the money? All you have to do is listen to the intro of this episode to find out. We discuss how "coachable" we think a lot of the soft skills of dating are, what flirting even is, and whether there are actually similarities in philosophy behind polyamory and arranged marriages. Links: 36 Questions that Lead to Love from the New York Times that Shreye mentions: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html A Youtube video from the New York Times by Amanda Hess on Zyzz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fYmwhyqmYg Note: In the episode, Isabel talks about how Zyzz worked out to death/until his heart gave out, but upon rewatching this video, it turns out he actually just had a pre-existing heart condition. Shreye's previous episodes: 113. The Bo Burnham Episode 71. The Mental Health Stigma Episode 47. The Financial Inclusion Episode Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Get some water before you listen to this episode: I had to remind myself to drink multiple times during this episode. In this episode, we talk to health coach and host of the podcast "Salad with a Side of Fries," Jenn Trepeck. She talks with us about all of the complexities of the health and food systems that we are a part of (she makes a point of not talking about the healthcare system because in reality, what we have is hardly a system, it's a disaggregated set of actors that are responsible for your health that almost never talk to each other) and the various problems with all of them. For one thing, we have been told to ignore what our bodies tell us from a very young age: we are told to finish what is on our plates instead of listening to when we are actually full. For another thing, we have a totally unrepresentative and inapproproate set of standards that we use to measure "health": most metrics are based entirely off of men, as if women did not exist. The 2,000 calorie diet was created to prevent soldiers during World War 2 from dying of diseases like scurvy when rations were in short supply. BMI was created to make it easier for doctors to talk to patients about weight and because it is cheaper and easier to measure a simple data point like weight with a scale than it is to give patients a more comprehensive understanding of what makes up their body, such as by measuring what percentage of your body mass is fat and what percentage is muscle. We also talk about Big Pharma, GMOs, and how to figure out who to trust when it comes to health information given that so many actors in the nutrition and medical space have monetary incentives to lie or boas their studies, many of which have dubiously statistically significant results to begin with. Links: Jenn's podcast, "Salad with a Side of Fries": https://asaladwithasideoffries.com/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. Note: In this episode, Jenn talked about the Nobel Prize-winning agronomist Norman Borlaug and his invention of dwarf wheat. She mentions that dwarf wheat was invented to solve world hunger and did not, in fact, solve world hunger, and therefore suggested that we should go back to eating other forms of wheat because dwarf wheat causes gluten sensitivities. Upon further research after the episode, the articles we found mostly seem to suggest that although we have not solved world hunger, the invention of dwarf wheat has likely saved over a billion people from starvation, so we will allow you to judge for yourself how this use of GMO's might weigh against the current rise of gluten sensitivities. Some articles on Norman Borlaug: "The Man Who Saved a Billion Lives": https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-man-who-saved-a-billi_b_4099523 "Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity": https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/01/forgotten-benefactor-of-humanity/306101/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

The real estate market is bananas right now. You may have seen the headlines about around-the-block lines for open houses in San Francisco, or watched houses in your neighborhood go on and off the market the same day on Zillow. A lot of that has to do with the current low interest rates but it also has a lot to do with land being increasingly bought up by private equity and big developers trying to flip houses and even whole neighborhoods. So much of what is going on in the housing market is furthering the already vastly unequal trends in land ownership and equity. But Wes wants to help create a world in which we can make cooperatives and land trusts more of a realistic option for everyday people. You've all seen the memes about millennials wanting to live in a big house with their 5 best friends; well, Wes thinks we can actually make that happen. He just started in real estate this week but after going to divinity school and working in the church for most of his adult career, now he feels like this new career change is going to be what really puts the values he has cultivated over the years to the test. As a continuation of our conversation from last week that is broadly about land and faith and the entanglements between and how the ecology of place informs your philosophy of how to build a community, we dive into how so many of these tools (like co-ops, like trusts) have historically been used by wealthy white people to further their interests and how we can convert these tactics to help the historically oppressed as well. We talk about Squirrel Island, an idyllic piece of land off the coast of Maine that is owned by a cooperative, and how President Reagan once visited and wanted to buy in, but was blocked by the cooperative because he also wanted to build a helicopter pad on the island. Things like this might seem like trite examples of communities wielding their collective power, but you can probably imagine how similar powers could be used to protect much more vulnerable, marginalized neighborhoods. Links: Wes' real estate instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wesrealtor/ Wes' 5-part podcast on the Farminary: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cultivators-podcast/id1508064564 Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Many voices address the girl-ouroboros. Featuring: a variety of opinions, and a promise. Music: Circle of Bones by ROZCOL, No by Soulsonic, Pleasure by Haunted Me, Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, Story by Meydän, Can't You See I'm Lonely by Ada Jones, Home Again Blues by Antique Phonograph Music Program, A chuva do ser ou como tudo correu mal by rui, and M, Volume II by (morse). Written by Becca De La Rosa and Maybell Marten. Guest starring: Dorrie Sacks as Janet Kirk, Reina Roman as Lolo Garcia, and as the Emissary, Chioke Ianson, director of the VPM + ICA Community Media Center. mabelpodcast.com patreon.com/mabelpodcast