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table td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } hr.thin { border: 0; height: 0; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); } New hosts Welcome to our new host: Henrik Hemrin. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4065 Fri 2024-03-01 Framework 13 (13th gen Intel) review Noodlez 4066 Mon 2024-03-04 HPR Community News for February 2024 HPR Volunteers 4067 Tue 2024-03-05 Hacking AI Models to Protect your Livelihood hobs 4068 Wed 2024-03-06 Replacing a lightbulb in a microwave Oven MrX 4069 Thu 2024-03-07 Passwords and Bitwarden news. Some Guy On The Internet 4070 Fri 2024-03-08 Civilization III Ahuka 4071 Mon 2024-03-11 Migration to digiKam as Digital Asset Management (DAM) Henrik Hemrin 4072 Tue 2024-03-12 Piper text to speech engine Archer72 4073 Wed 2024-03-13 Is the 1990 documentary "Cyberpunk" worth watching today? Trixter 4074 Thu 2024-03-14 Jade Empire Daniel Persson 4075 Fri 2024-03-15 Making a Pomodoro Timer norrist 4076 Mon 2024-03-18 WLED House Lights! operat0r 4077 Tue 2024-03-19 FFMPEG Series: Joining and Splitting files Mr. Young 4078 Wed 2024-03-20 Learning to read music, part two: pitch enistello 4079 Thu 2024-03-21 The Corresponding Source Ken Fallon 4080 Fri 2024-03-22 Georgia to South Carolina Ahuka 4081 Mon 2024-03-25 The Oh No! News. Some Guy On The Internet 4082 Tue 2024-03-26 No swans at Swanston Dave Morriss 4083 Wed 2024-03-27 Drivecast: Man-talk. Some Guy On The Internet 4084 Thu 2024-03-28 Cloud learning Daniel Persson 4085 Fri 2024-03-29 Android User Land Google Assistant GPT operat0r Comments this month These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 21 comments in total. Past shows There are 5 comments on 3 previous shows: hpr3060 (2020-04-24) "Running a local imap server" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Somebdy on 2024-03-19: "Nothing in particular" Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-03-20: "Very suspicious comment." hpr4062 (2024-02-27) "HPR Music Series? - How will it go for the girl and me?" by Fred Black. Comment 3: brian-in-ohio on 2024-03-01: "Good show" Comment 4: norrist on 2024-03-02: "I loved the Music" hpr4063 (2024-02-28) "Re: ChatGPT Output is not compatible with CC-BY-SA " by dnt. Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2024-03-01: "Amen" This month's shows There are 16 comments on 9 of this month's shows: hpr4067 (2024-03-05) "Hacking AI Models to Protect your Livelihood" by hobs. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-05: "Dejavu... Is this the same as HPR4055?" hpr4068 (2024-03-06) "Replacing a lightbulb in a microwave Oven" by MrX. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-06: "Nicely done."Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-03-08: "Be very careful" hpr4069 (2024-03-07) "Passwords and Bitwarden news." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Deltaray on 2024-03-10: "Thanks for the shout out" hpr4071 (2024-03-11) "Migration to digiKam as Digital Asset Management (DAM)" by Henrik Hemrin. Comment 1: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-03-15: "Good show!" hpr4073 (2024-03-13) "Is the 1990 documentary "Cyberpunk" worth watching today?" by Trixter. Comment 1: HPR Listener on 2024-03-16: "Restoration on archive.org"Comment 2: Trixter on 2024-03-18: "A slightly better version" hpr4075 (2024-03-15) "Making a Pomodoro Timer" by norrist. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-15: "Great project" hpr4077 (2024-03-19) "FFMPEG Series: Joining and Splitting files" by Mr. Young. Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-03-20: "Useful to learn how ffmpeg can be used" hpr4078 (2024-03-20) "Learning to read music, part two: pitch" by enistello. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-20: "Desperate plea for a drummer to respond?" hpr4081 (2024-03-25) "The Oh No! News." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-03-25: "Pearl clutching"Comment 2: hpr listener on 2024-03-25: "Unnecessary insult"Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-03-26: "@hpr listener"Comment 4: Some Guy on the Internet on 2024-03-26: "Desperately, with white knuckles, clutching pearls."Comment 5: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-03-27: "/e/OS - an open source Android alternative"Comment 6: Kevin O'Brien on 2024-03-28: "Good Show" Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2024-March/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Any other business Many Podcatchers don't show the episode author It seems that the author fields in RSS and Atom feeds are not shown by a number of Podcatchers. This field is intended to show the author details, and with HPR shows it contains an obfuscated email address and a name: ken.nospam@nospam.fallon.ie (Ken Fallon) The lack of this information makes knowing who created a given HPR show difficult to determine before listening to it. A question has been raised as to whether we could include the author details at the start of the show notes. Comments are requested from the Community as to whether this would be a useful addition. The Corresponding Source - renamed podcast The Corresponding Source (formerly Free as in Freedom) is a bi-weekly oggcast, hosted and presented by Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler. The discussion includes legal, policy, and many other issues in the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) world. Occasionally, guests join Bradley and Karen to discuss various topics regarding FLOSS. See HPR show 4079 HPR changes The correspondent pages which show details of a particular correspondent (host), and lists their shows, have been enhanced to include the profile which has been uploaded by the host. This was present on the old site but was omitted on the static site. This was issue number 181 on the Gitea site, which has been closed. Example: Host 30, Ken Fallon Return of OggCamp There are plans to hold OggCamp 2024 in Manchester, UK this year, after an absence of 5 years. It will be on October 12th and 13th at the The Manchester Conference Centre in the Pendulum Hotel near Picadilly Station, where the last OggCamp was held. Details may be found on the OggCamp website, and announcements will be made on social media sites.

This week, the least serious, and most fun week in review wrestling podcast returns as Mitch Hontzias and Dimitri Korolis walk us back through some big TV, and big build towards WrestleMania! This week, join the leaders of the Greek World Order as they tackle: - AEW in Toronto - and shoutout to gWo members in attendance! - Adam Copeland and Christian are ageless - Hook and Jericho? - Why this ISN'T good - Okada is a new champion, Eddie Kingston is emotional - Main event -Nicely done by the ladies On the WWE side of things,  - Why we think Sami Zayn isn't believable - Cody got out-negotiated - Smackdown's ending was white hot And this week, we use what is becoming known as the "Bret Hart Wrestler Rating System" to talk about some of the greatest wrestlers out there, AND Ricky Steamboat!   To join in the conversation anytime for FREE, join the Team MoW Facebook Page! To support the shows or find out more about the programming, check out www.mcguireshow.com If you'd like to get your hands on the official gWo and Chairshot  and other shirts, click HERE!  

We've gone through quite a few pods on film, especially film noir and police procedurals, but this might be the first that has a female protagonist as the main character! More's the pity! But what a protagonist! Perhaps to make up for the previous imbalance, we're going to encounter one of the fiercest, most insightful, and action-oriented characters yet, regardless of gender. She has high EQ, high IQ, empathy, but she's also tough as nails, and wise. Nicely enough, she was the character that introduced me deeply, as she did for so many people, to the wonder of the Coen Brothers and their cinematic universe. Now, this is one cinematic universe I can get into…Website and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comIG: @thosewonderfulpeopleTwitter: @FilmsInTheDark

The Wrestling RHAPUp this week is celebrating the pro wrestling return and AEW debut of Mercedes Mone, formerly known as Sasha Banks!

The Wrestling RHAPUp this week is celebrating the pro wrestling return and AEW debut of Mercedes Mone, formerly known as Sasha Banks!

In this episode of the I Can't Sleep Podcast, fall asleep learning about Dogs. Don't tell my family, but I'm convinced I need a dog after reading this wikipedia entry. Nicely done authors of the article! Well, for you dog lovers out there—happy sleeping! Ad-Free Episodes Want an ad-free experience? Follow this link to support the podcast and get episodes with no ads: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ ProLon Go to ProlonLife.com/ICANTSLEEP for 10% off the 5-day nutrition program.  Jupiter CBD Oil Save 20% off your first purchase by entering GETSLEEP upon checkout, or click here: https://www.getjupiter.com/share/icantsleep SleepPhones Follow this affiliate link to purchase headphones you can fall asleep with: https://www.sleepphones.com/?aff=793 then enter the code ICANTSLEEP10 at checkout to receive a discount. This content is derived from the Wikipedia article Dog, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. The article can be accessed at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Colorado Avalanche might not have had the lead after the first period, but you got the sense that if they kept up that style of play, things would work in their favor. Boy did they. The Avs found the net five times in the second, and then put the car in cruise control for the 3rd to complete a pretty convincing and dominant win over the Calgary Flames, 6-2. We break it all down! Tune in, subscribe and enjoy! Subscribe to our Subtext to talk to us directly! https://joinsubtext.com/lockedonavalanche Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

Season 04 Episode 10: Prosecuting ‘nicely'WARNING: Suicide is discussed in this episode.Alan introduces a model of prosecution adopted by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator that provides guidance to industry and focuses on the most important prosecutorial issues. Alan and Trajce dream of dismantling ideological boundaries so that business and industry can return to the fundamental questions on, “What is our purpose?" In this way, creative solutions can be found to solve age-old problems. Sara is excited by what she sees as the favourable view of design in this light and her influence on the way that the boys think. She reiterates her desire to advance three pillars in work design: workplace protections, people and culture, and design (For more on this, watch Sara's presentation at HFESA 2023)“Hey mum, hey dad,” sidles Trajce, “are we becoming though leaders?” Sara exclaims, “I'm just an agitator, a rabble-rouser - I am never satisfied!” while Alan heartedly agrees with her proclamation. “If we raise thought-provoking material, and we generate strong reactions from among our listeners,” says Trajce, “we are the ‘agent provocateur'.”Thank you to subscriber Craig McDonald for raising considerations in the Rail Industry. These concerns included queries about government control on capital expenditures. In these cases, Craig wondered with whom responsibility lies when considering safe design, design impact, and the causal chain of responsibility.

Ethereal inspirations are the name of today's musical game as we look to Martin Respaut aka Foreign Material and his aptly titled, ‘Saturnian' EP. Drawing inspiration from Saturnus, the god of time, transcendence and agriculture, Foreign Material has crafted a journey that moves seamlessly through the peaks and valleys of deep, hypnotic techno and beyond. On this EP, he's also joined by Toffes Värld who provides a re-imagination of Saturnian Dub. Above Abysmal Rivers is the last but certainly not least track of the Saturnian EP. Coming in as the digital bonus, Foreign Material slows things down to a rhythmic 98 bpm, providing that chuggy low slung vibe that is all over our Delayed HQ. Nicely textured synths add to the movement, fending off the repetitiveness, while a glittering melody builds and our favorite melancholic pads round out the atmosphere. Foreign Material's Saturnian EP will be released on the Navigare Audio imprint, March 29th. @foreignmaterial @navigare-audio www.instagram.com/foreign_material_music/ www.instagram.com/navigareaudio/ Write up by @huedj Follow us on social media: @itsdelayed linktr.ee/delayed www.itsdelayed.com www.facebook.com/itsdelayed www.instagram.com/_____delayed www.youtube.com/@_____delayed

Ole Miss baseball won two games against Iowa last weekend. Slowly but surely, the Rebels are finding themselves. Plus, The Flagship welcomes a new sponsor, as Greg Jones of LB's Meat Market explains.Our Sponsors:* Listen to NerdWallet's Smart Money podcast on your favorite podcast app. “Future You” will thank you.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On the podcast this week jD is in conversation with Pavement super-fan Alan. Listen in as they discuss his Pavement origin story and analyze song number 42 on the countdown.Transcript:Track 1:[0:00] Previously on the Pavement Top 50.Track 2:[0:02] All right, that was the fifth track from Bright in the Corners, Old to Begin.It's our third song from Bright in the Corners on the countdown so far.Of course, number 50 was Blue Hawaiian. And just last week, we listened to Embassy Row at number 44.So here we are with Old to Begin. In Josh and Pittsburgh, what do you think of this as track number 43?I love it. I love it. It was in my top 20. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah.I was kind of sitting at my desk at work thinking about where I rank these songs and set you back, set you back, set you back. Just kept ringing in my head.It's not, you know, it's probably lower down in my 20, but it's in my 20.Track 3:[0:52] Hey, this is Westy from the Rock and Roll Band Pavement, and you're listening to The Countdown.Hey.Track 1:[1:01] It's J.D. here, back for another episode of our Top 50 Countdown for Seminole Indie Rock Band Pavement. Week over week.Track 4:[1:08] We're going to countdown the 50 essential pavement tracks that you selected with your very own Top 20 ballads.Track 1:[1:14] I tabulated the results using an advanced abacus and my toes, and all that's left is for us to reveal this week's track.How will your favorite song fare in the ranking? You'll need to tune in.Track 4:[1:26] Or whatever the podcast equivalent of tuning in is.Track 1:[1:30] To find out. This week we're joined by Pavement superfan.Track 4:[1:33] Alan.Track 1:[1:34] So there's that. Alan! Hello. How are you doing, motherfucker?I'm very good, motherfucker.It's a bit cold here. Yeah, brother. Yeah, man. It's good to have you here.Thank you. It's lovely to be here.Where where are we talking to you from right now so i i am a glaswegian i'm a scotsman but i, uprooted to finland uh eight years ago so we live on the west coast of finland so kind of likein in the glasgow of of finland i would say the glasgow of finland glasgow finland yeah man so it's a very cool very cool place then because glasgow is very fucking cool Yeah, this is very,very cool just now, literally, because it's minus 25.So what is the closest city?Next biggest one here is probably Vasa. Okay. Population size.My Scandinavian geography isn't what it should be, but... We're about...[2:34] Three and a half hours on the train from helsinki so oh okay we we are we're quite quite probably about two thirds of the way up if you if you drive for another three hours thenyou're starting to hit like the arctic circle okay wow yeah that's that's wild that is so wild yeah well let's talk about pavement absolutely talk to me about your experience with payment oryour pavement origin and story yeah so i was one of the people that first heard pavement uh on the john peel show on radio one would have been um i don't know if you know who johnpeel is he was like a seminal he's a really really important dj in the uk um he just had the most eclectic eccentric taste of music so it'd be a bit of heavy dub reggae one minute some youknow post-industrial the next and And then he basically would just.Track 4:[3:32] He would put anything on and he just.Track 1:[3:35] He was a massive pavement fan as well.Track 4:[3:37] So I would have heard him on his show. I had a great friend called Mark Porchani, who was, in those days, he was an avid cassette taper of all the radio shows.I believe that he still has his archive stretching back then.Track 1:[3:52] So he might be someone that would be good for you to speak to.Holy shit. Yeah, man. That would be cool to get digitized. Yeah.Track 4:[3:59] Man.Track 1:[3:59] Well I can we can speak after this but I'll I'll yeah I think he would be someone really fascinating for you to speak to as well anyway digressing so yeah so I would have heardPavement on John Peele but then I missed their I think it was 92 they toured Slatted and Enchanted, and they played at Strathclyde Uni Strathclyde University in Glasgow, but I missedthat gig by a couple of days oh man yeah man yep same thing happened to Nirvana when they played the QMU in Glasgow I missed it I bought the single, three days after they playedyeah, good luck but I mean I got to see Pavement on all the other tours after that you did?Yeah yeah so oh you're a turbo fan man awesome man yeah yeah so Crooked Rain, and then yeah Breaking the Corners and.Track 4:[4:55] Hi what do you think it is about the uk that that really um they adopted pavement in a way in a way that the rest of the world just didn't you know like they were popular in the us ofcourse and popular in canada but it seems like the uk and scotland like it's much bigger than that yeah it's it's exactly that it's almost the same way people are about like the rocky horrorshow.[5:25] So i'm i'm a huge fan of the rocky horror show huge fan of pavement and it's kind of like it for a long time like in the mid 90s it was certainly it was like a barometer you know touse of okay these people seem kind of cool do you like pavement yes awesome you know so it's like like not not being like you know cool and elitist but just kind of okay these are peoplewho are obviously switched on they're probably into the same kind of literature and other bands that we would like so then it's just i think they were just such a are they still are they're justan amazing stepping stone into so much other you know literature and and architecture and psychology just the the subject matter of the songs once you actually delve through the lyricsit's yeah it puts you on a lot of different nice paths i would say yeah but i think especially like so i'm from glasgow so as you've experienced a glasgow audience we're very vocal and wereally we really attach ourselves you know it's the cities you know there's a lot of uh emotion there a lot of it's centered towards football teams but it's also bands we really really love ourbands.I'd say the next kind of Samoan city is probably like Manchester or Liverpool where it's the same kind of vibe as Glasgow.Track 1:[6:45] Wow. I visited both on my UK tour when I followed Pavan.I didn't tour, but I followed their tour. I went to Manchester.I was only there for like 30 hours, so I didn't get to see much, but I saw a show.So that was cool. What was your favorite tour that you saw them on?Track 4:[7:06] It would have been Brighton and the Corners because they played at the Glasgow School of Art.Track 1:[7:16] Okay. So I was studying just around the corner from it at the time.Track 4:[7:20] So I went up to the art school and I knew the guy called Simon Fox.Track 1:[7:27] Who was the entertainment officer there.Track 4:[7:29] So he was the one responsible for booking all the bands for that year.And I said to him you know like I'm obviously a massive fan is it possible to maybe see the guys before the sound check you know just just to say hi and stuff and he was like well wecan't do that but because we knew each other as well so he was like, do you want to come to the after show and I was like yeah, so yeah so yeah so there was a bunch of us went and Ithink it was five of us that went there and then And watched an amazing gig, a really, really great gig.And then we went to the after show afterwards and got hung up with them.I had a chat with Malcolmus for about two hours and just such, such engaging people.Track 1:[8:16] You know.Track 4:[8:16] And like met the whole band. Yeah.Track 1:[8:20] I had on like an old.Track 4:[8:21] It was a t-shirt that it turns out that Mark Ibold designed it.Track 1:[8:29] So I got it on the I got it on the Crooked Rain tour so it's like this kind of cross stitch thing, and then at the gig at the art school like, I bowed I was like can I buy that t-shirt off youbecause we don't have any left and I was like nah I love this man but they were just I mean I think they spent, easily five six hours just chilling with the fans in the after show and justbeing just really really nice guys and, And you nailed Malcomus down for that long. Yeah, yeah, man.Nicely done. I think I really annoyed, I don't know if you know.Track 4:[9:06] There's a really kind of very important band from Glasgow called The Pastels.Track 1:[9:11] So they were both on Geographic Domino at the same time.Track 4:[9:17] Okay.Track 1:[9:17] Yeah, Domino. So Pastels were the support band.Track 4:[9:20] Oh, okay. For that gig. And then Stephen.Track 1:[9:24] The singer, so he was talking to Malcomus and I came down the stairs was in Spotted Malcomus and I think I kind of interrupted him being a bit of a fanboy and I think Stephen gota little bit annoyed at me Stephen Pastel got a little bit annoyed at me but you know I think I've, we've made up since then I'm sure so well I mean.Track 3:[9:45] Man yeah so what was it about that show other than meeting the band or was that was that why that was the the show is it because you met the man, no i mean i think i bumped intohim again after other gigs as well and like, i just think it was uh it was that i think that that was peak i think that was just it was like they were just completely riding the zeitgeist and yeahthey were they were on their absolute a game you know and just yeah i just i just felt like they could have you know i can, thrown out a can down a set of stairs and it would still theywould still have got something really musical from it and you know just create some wonderful piece of music so what's your record which which is your record the one that you cleave tothe most right, tough call right sophie's choice yeah totally man but the track that i always go back to is here, like yeah but actually that's just my go-to and i was actually i was playing i'vegot two kids i've got a nine-year-old and a seven-year-old and uh i was playing it and my daughter was like is that your band and i was like no no this is uncle steven and his band it's uhit's not us but we would maybe aspire to being a tenth of that or even 1% of that.Track 4:[11:09] I think that's I think it's the same for a lot of people who've got so much attachment to that track but it's the same as any song really I mean it's for me having grown up you knowthat was my kind of teenage formative years.[11:26] Late teenage formative years in the early 20s and, just so many memories memories on you know when i bought that record or you know any of the records and you knowremembering being at different friends at their house and sticking vinyl on and listening to it for the first time and people there was a a guy uh i think his name was dawson he was acomplete metalhead uh he was a friend of a friend and he was like what is this you know and i was like oh this is paving this is a new record and he was he was hooked you know fromfirst listen yeah man we we just put it on.Track 1:[12:01] I think it was.Track 4:[12:02] Um, it was crooked rain put on and just, you know, play that four or five times in a row.Track 1:[12:08] And he was, he was like, this is awesome stuff. And then from that, that's a fucking record.Track 4:[12:12] Yeah.Track 1:[12:12] Yeah. I mean, that's fine.Track 4:[12:14] It's that they are just such a good, great gateway band.Track 1:[12:17] You know?Track 4:[12:18] I think they're like now I would say, the band that I'm probably equally as passionate about after them would be the Super Furry Animals Oh cool.Track 1:[12:31] I'm doing a podcast about them next week. Awesome man Awesome.Yeah It'll be out in the fall, that podcast will be out in the fall but I'm doing it next week It's like anyone who's never heard them before they're so lucky because they've got such a,beautiful back catalogue you know such a wealth of material there as well well we'll have to talk about them when we get off the get off the podcast yeah definitely because i would like toget your take what do you say we get to the main course and we we listen to track number 42 no no no all right just like all right we'll come right back after this break with more from alanand we'll talk Talk about track 42.Track 5:[13:23] Hey, this is Bob Mustanovich from Pavement. Thanks for listening.And now on with a countdown.Track 2:[13:31] 42.Track 6:[13:34] Hey, do you need a reason? Is there a separate season?Track 1:[16:37] Okay, track number 42, Easily Fooled, comes from the Rattled by Da Rush EP, and it's the third track on that EP, and it later appeared on the Sorted Sentinel edition of WowieZowie Reissue, along with its EP bandmate, False Scorpion, and it was track number 22 on that second disc of the Sorted Sentinels collection, the reissue.So Alan yeah my man what do you think of Easily Fooled love it love it love it love it it's on like I said to you off off air it's, probably one of my favourite tracks alongside here yeah it'sjust such an amazing track love the, the meandering nature of it just really.[17:26] Acerbic lyrics and yeah like it's awesome awesome track to jam along to, yeah I bet I bet it would yeah because it is very, jammy isn't it yeah absolutely and it's it's one of thoseones most of their stuff the more you listen it's like a lovely painting it's like an an aural painting it's the more you listen to it there's a new layer there's like a little little piano in the leftspeaker then there's a little guitar scrape in the right and you don't really notice maybe the first couple of listens and you hear these lovely, almost I think it's Malcomus kind of doing somekind of faux, mick jagger kind of high you know like vocal harmonizing rooms it's just it's just all these love you can just imagine them in the studio you know like or you know anothertrack another track another track you know and it's rare for them right yeah well yeah i think yeah apart from when like stanovich putting on they don't seem like studio builders to methey seem like one one take wonders you know yeah yeah i think it depends on the record so the fact that he's singing backup vocals with himself is wild.I love it. That whole single EP.[18:40] Awesome awesome yeah it has my it has my favorite line as well but yeah uh it takes centuries to build in seconds to fall oh just lovely lovely poetry yeah so yeah it is there'sthere's some real lovely uh and i love the rhythm yeah i love the rhythm of his lyrics i don't need a time i don't need an internal cuter yeah right like and the timekeeper part strikes mebecause the song starts with just bass guitar and vocal and then in the like third line of the song the drums come in yeah and it lifts the song like it just lifts it even more yeah that's just thestunning i think you can also hear in like the the latter parts of it it's like it's almost like like it's the kind of genesis for folk jam as well.Track 4:[19:39] Especially some of the vocal deliveries and some of the guitar phrase and the drums.It's like, I only noticed it like last night when I was listening to it.I was like, fuck, that sounds a lot like, I think it's more about the bit of, in folk jam when he starts talking about Irish folk tales scare the shit out of me.Track 1:[19:57] It's that.Track 4:[19:58] Those kind of phrases, you can hear like the, almost as if it's like a quick sketch and that then developed into that track.Track 1:[20:08] That's a...Yep, sorry, everyone froze there, sorry. No, it's okay. It's part of doing this with people from all over the world, right? Yeah.The United Family of Pavement. Yeah. Yeah, like I say, it's so nice to talk to somebody, because I did the whole first part, the whole first season of the show by myself.So it's so cool to hear people's pavement stories and what they think of these songs. Yeah.Track 3:[20:41] Where do you think um what do you think about where it falls easily fooled number 42 it's your favorite song so i'm guessing you wish it were a bit higher top top three and it's topthree for you oh fuck yeah i would say grounded grounded here and easily fooled would be very very tough top three place for me wow so you must be a bit disappointed that it's 42 no it'sif someone here if someone's introduced to it that they've never heard of before then that's what matters it's pavement doesn't matter where it goes they're all fucking number one so youknow, yeah man there is no, bad pavement track even Westing by Musket and Sexton there's a lot of difficult pieces on that but even then there's no bad track on that either no I agree Iagree.Track 1:[21:38] Those first EPs are very different.I like more melodic stuff, but you get that. You get Box Elder right away.Which is fantastic. So dude, you're in a band. Yeah, yeah. Hi.I'm going to do a Pavement pod list again this year. Yep.Where I get people to cover Pavement songs songs and send them in and then i release i release it yeah as awesome as a podcast yeah that's going to come out in july so get cracking onthat.Track 4:[22:23] I'm trying i i'll need i'll need to get in touch with andrew graham and then pass if he doesn't know about you already then i'll connect you guys up um but i think he's he's he's afascinating guy he's got such a yeah again a very um broad musical taste as well like you know he's a thanks i find that pavement fans usually do have pretty broad musical taste yeah yeahyou know they're they're more accepting and they're more open to listen to new and different things yeah yeah but i think i mean i think it's lovely now seeing them because i went to thethe the reunion um yeah gigs on 2010 and that's like it was just amazing to see this new at least one new generation coming up you know and you're going fuck you know like as as cultishas they were the first time around it's great to see them kind of getting their juice you know and like actually you know, making a bit of money off it you know and like just agreed 100 likei hope this is fun in their retirement absolutely man but i don't know if you know the story but well one of the rumors of why why they did the whole reunion concerts, was apparentlyBob.[23:47] Stanovich was like a fucking degenerate gambler and he got in deep to the wrong people for a lot of money and then he approached the guys and went the only way we can makefast cash is if you know these concerts, and he went fuck it we'll do like five to begin with and that'll cover it and then we'll see how it goes and then just snowballed from that holy shityeah but again you don't know if he's, obviously he's a bit of a character so I mean that was it came from his mouth in an interview so you know you don't know if he's the king of bullshitor not so, that's rad yeah man, anything else you want to add about Easily Fooled?Track 1:[24:31] If you've not heard it before go and listen to it and if you've heard it before go and listen to it five more times and just absorb absorb absorb yeah and just and read read the lyrics it'si mean read the lyrics on their own and their own merit and then and you know really listen to them and the kind of cadence and the delivery and and the track when they're when it'splaying yeah Yeah.Lovely, lovely messages. And yeah, it's been great talking to you. Yeah, you too.Uh, that's all I got for you this week.So without further ado, stay cool and wash your goddamn hands.Track 3:[25:12] Absolutely, man. Hey.Track 1:[25:14] As we say here.Track 3:[25:15] Thanks for listening to meeting Malcolm. This a pavement podcast where we count down the top 50 pavement tracks as selected by you. If you've got questions or concerns, pleaseshoot me an email. JD at MeetingMathemist.com.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/meeting-malkmus-a-pavement-podcast/exclusive-contentAdvertising 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Our position review series returns with a look at the defense. Will McFadden goes through the Falcons' defensive line production last season and shares his expectations for the changes the could be coming. New defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake has said the Falcons will use a 3-4 base front, but the roster is set up to handle that transition well. Will explains why as he takes a deep dive into the D-Line.

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Florida Panthers (Puma concolor couguar) are a distinct population of pumas that live predominantly in southwest Florida. Pumas used to roam the entire United States, but habitat loss and overhunting in the 1800's and early 1900's caused them to disappear from much of their range. Every breeding population of pumas East of the Mississippi river vanished, except for one. South Florida, due to its wild and swampy nature, was able to thwart human development just enough for its inhabiting pumas to narrowly avoid oblivion. These surviving pumas, or Florida Panthers, represent the resiliency of wild south Florida. The decades since their near extinction have been filled with controversy, conservation, and politics. This iconic cat still has many challenges to face, and with only 200 or so remaining in the wild, their future is uncertain. Daniel was first introduced unofficially to this animal during his first trip to Everglades National Park in 2017. The Florida Panther and the swampy, remote areas in which they are found captivated Daniel's imagination. Every subsequent trip to the Everglades and southwest Florida had at least some time dedicated to searching for this cat, all to no avail. In January 2024, after spending months preparing and researching, Daniel embarked on a five-day solo trip in the backcountry of the Big Cypress National Preserve, with the sole objective of finally crossing paths with a panther.But what exactly IS a Florida Panther? Are they only found in Florida? Are they black? What is the difference between a Florida Panther and a mountain lion? And of course… do they eat people?! Luckily, Bill was able to meet Daniel in south Florida to record an episode about the Florida Panther and tackle the questions and misconceptions that leave this cat shrouded in mystery. This episode was recorded on January 8th, 2024 at Everglades National Park in Homestead, FL. Episode NotesWhen Daniel was talking about Florida Panther size, they were described as smaller than other pumas out west. It should also be noted that while they do fall to the bottom of the size and weight scale of pumas in North America, the populations of pumas closer to the equatorial rain forests in South America are even smaller. This reinforces the notion discussed in the podcast that pumas in colder climates or higher elevation tend to be larger than pumas in warmer climates and lower elevation. Also, Bill asked Daniel what their life span was, and Daniel was not sure. Bill guessed 20-30 years. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, “Panthers can live up to 20 years or more in the wild. Female kittens have a good chance of living 10 years or more. Males have a tougher time, but if they survive to five or six years old, they are likely to live even longer to 10 or more years.” Nicely done Bill!While discussing vehicular collisions as the number one cause of death of Florida Panther, Bill and Daniel discussed how in 2023, 13 Florida Panthers were killed by vehicular strikes. So far in 2024, there have been five. Bill and Daniel referred to the rule about animals being larger the farther you get from the equator, but they couldn't remember the name of the rule. It's Bergmann's Rule, and it's defined as: “one of the best-known generalizations in zoology. It is generally defined as a within-species tendency in homeothermic (warm-blooded) animals to have increasing body size with increasing latitude and decreasing ambient temperature. That is, Bergmann's rule states that among mammals and birds, individuals of a particular species in colder areas tend to have greater body mass than individuals in warmer areas. For instance, white-tailed deer are larger in Canada than in the Florida Keys, and the body size of wood rat populations are inversely correlated with ambient temperature. This principle is named after a nineteenth-century German biologist, Karl Bergmann, who published observations along these lines in 1847.” - from The New World EncyclopediaLinks Panther Pulse, the database containing documented Florida Panther deaths and depredations: https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/wildlife/panther/pulse/Path of the Panther: https://pathofthepanther.com Sponsors and Ways to Support UsGumleaf Boots, USA (free shipping for patrons)Thank you to Always Wandering Art (Website and Etsy Shop) for providing the artwork for many of our episodes! Support us on Patreon!Check out the Field Guides merch at our Teespring store. It's really a great deal: you get to pay us to turn your body into a billboard for the podcast!Works CitedCaudill, Gretchen & Onorato, Dave & Cunningham, Mark & Caudill, Danny & Leone, Erin & Smith, Lisa & Jansen, Deborah. (2019). Temporal Trends in Florida Panther Food Habits. Human-Wildlife Interactions. 13. 87-97. 10.26076/kta5-cr93.Cox, J. J., Maehr, D. S., & Larkin, J. L. (2006). Florida Panther Habitat Use: New Approach to an Old Problem. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 70(6), 1778–1785. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4128112Frakes RA, Belden RC, Wood BE, James FE (2015) Landscape Analysis of Adult Florida Panther Habitat. PLOS ONE 10(7): e0133044. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133044Hostetler JA, Onorato DP, Nichols JD, Johnson WE, Roelke ME, O'Brien SJ, Jansen D, Oli MK. Genetic Introgression and the Survival of Florida Panther Kittens. Biol Conserv. 2010 Nov 1;143(11):2789-2796. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.07.028. PMID: 21113436; PMCID: PMC2989677.Johnson WE, Onorato DP, Roelke ME, Land ED, Cunningham M, Belden RC, McBride R, Jansen D, Lotz M, Shindle D, Howard J, Wildt DE, Penfold LM, Hostetler JA, Oli MK, O'Brien SJ. Genetic restoration of the Florida panther. Science. 2010 Sep 24;329(5999):1641-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1192891. PMID: 20929847; PMCID: PMC6993177.Land, Darrell & Shindle, David & Kawula, Robert & BENSON, JOHN & LOTZ, MARK & Onorato, Dave. (2010). Florida Panther Habitat Selection Analysis of Concurrent GPS and VHF Telemetry Data. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 72. 633 - 639. 10.2193/2007-136.Maehr, David S. (1997). The Florida Panther: Life and Death of a Vanishing Carnivore. Island Press ISBN 155963507X, 9781559635073Pienaar, Elizabeth & Rubino, Elena. (2016). Habitat Requirements of the Florida Panther. 10.13140/RG.2.1.1887.2722.Robert A. Frakes, Marilyn L. Knight, Location and extent of unoccupied panther (Puma concolor coryi) habitat in Florida: Opportunities for recovery, Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 26, 2021, e01516, ISSN 2351-9894, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01516. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989421000664)Urbanizing Landscape. PLoS One. 2015 Jul 15;10(7):e0131490. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131490. PMID: 26177290; PMCID: PMC4503643.Vickers TW, Sanchez JN, Johnson CK, Morrison SA, Botta R, Smith T, Cohen BS, Huber PR, Ernest HB, Boyce WM. Survival and Mortality of Pumas (Puma concolor) in a Fragmented, Urbanizing Landscape. PLoS One. 2015 Jul 15;10(7):e0131490. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131490. PMID: 26177290; PMCID: PMC4503643.Photo Credithttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Everglades_National_Park_Florida_Panther.jpg?uselang=en#Licensing

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Michigan State football and the rest of the Big Ten had their win totals released, and we are feeling SPICY about where MSU stands. Is over 5.5 wins a stone-cold lock, or is there reason to be treading lightly on that number? And what are three other win total bets we are feeling good about for the conference? We also take a look at whether MSU will be in play for Spencer Holstege and where MSU basketball stands in bracketology before its game at Penn State. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn These days every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business. That's why LinkedIn Jobs helps find the right people for your team, faster and for free. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/lockedoncollege. Terms and conditions apply. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuel New customers, join today and you'll getONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS if your first bet of FIVE DOLLARS or more wins. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. eBay Motors With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it's easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, I chatted with Matt Lynch about all things 2023 Deer hunting including his thoughts on the overall season, his success, and his thoughts on how the Illinois hunting laws are affecting the quality of our deer. Here are some pics of his 2023 bucks! Nicely done!

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A lot of people expect FSU football to fall off of a cliff in 2024 after losing so much production to the NFL. However, FSU will be in a better position going into 2024 than they were going into the 2022 season when they won 10 games and lost three games by a combined 18 points. I discuss some of the transfer portal additions and what else is needed from the portal.

Prepare yourself to delve into the beautiful dance of giving and receiving - a balance, when maintained, that can have profound impacts on both your work and personal life. We'll explore the joy of giving and the ripple effects it carries for both the giver and recipient, as well as the importance of receiving recognition in the business world. As we navigate this conversation, we'll also challenge the constant need for validation and discuss how rewarding achievements can foster healthier self-esteem. Join us as we explore the complexities of acknowledging one's worth and the importance of fair compensation. Essential listening for anyone who struggles with receiving, this episode promises to enlighten and inspire. 00:01 - Intro (Announcement) It's time to take your business to the next level, the boss level. These are the premier business owner strategies and successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a boss, a VEO boss. Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.  00:19 - Anne (Host) Hey everyone, welcome to the VEO Boss podcast and the Boss Superpower series. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, along with my amazing, awesome, most wonderful boss, co -host Lau Lapides. Hey, Lau, hi, hi, Annie. Happy Saturday, yes, happy Saturday, Lau. You know, Lau, it's a new year and I am full of promise and full of motivation and inspiration and we've just come off the season of. I like to call it the season of giving, because I love to give gifts and I love to donate to my favorite charities. And you know what? I also like to receive gifts, but we don't always talk about that. We talk about giving, but what about receiving? And sometimes Lau those gifts, they're not in a box. So let's talk about the gift of receiving, shall we?  01:14 - Lau (Host) It's so interesting to me. I love this topic and because there's so many cultural differences of how we receive. There's gender differences, there's age and generational differences and I don't hear anyone really talking about how do we get something, receive something, take something, and how do we behaviorally deal with that. Yeah, like something is simple. I'll tell you what's in my brain right now. When someone comes into my home or my studio, the first thing I do and this was in my training was to offer them something. I offer them a hot drink.  01:51 - Anne (Host) I offer them a warm beverage.  01:52 - Lau (Host) I offer them a warm beverage of their choice, right, and that is definitely generational, but it's also cultural because that's the background Eastern European background. We are gift givers. We give a lot to others, right, and there's different schools of thought business-wise as to how you receive that, and how I train my clients is take it, take it. You don't have to drink it, you don't have to want it, but take it because it's giving a message to the person who's giving it to you that you are cordially receiving something that they're offering to you.  02:29 That's part of their protocol and they're etiquette right.  02:32 - Anne (Host) Well, I'll tell you one thing that's always been hard for me to receive and I think a lot of maybe women, maybe a lot of people share. This is a compliment I'm just saying that is so difficult for me, without downplaying it, and honestly, the best thing you can do to receive that compliment is to receive it with gratitude even if you don't feel it right.  02:55 I mean, how many times do people send a compliment your way and you're like, oh no, it was nothing. Or, and especially, though, when it comes to our businesses too though, isn't it funny. When it comes to our businesses, I am more than happy to take a compliment from a client. Do you know what I mean? If a client's like, oh my God, great job, right, I'm very happy about that. Inside, I'm bursting with pride and joy and hopefully that's every boss out there when they get a compliment or good feedback from their client, and I think that you must receive that. And if you receive that, that really speaks volumes to professionalism, right and courtesy, and understanding what it means to the other person when they're giving you something such as a compliment doesn't have to have monetary value, of course.  03:37 Well, like to have gifts of gold but in addition to that, gift of a kind word is really something I think that is truly like giving of the other person, and if you reject it, then that's a little insulting and hurtful.  03:53 - Lau (Host) I think you hit the nail on the head too when you said, especially with women, how we're not always in the mood to receive that or expecting that or even deserving of that. In our mindset, it's a little bit of that imposter syndrome that comes in when someone gives you that compliment and that moment of like oh, how do I take that? Do I deserve that? Oftentimes we'll say, oh no, I just got this dumb outfit.  04:19 - Anne (Host) You know it was on sale. Anyway, you look terrific, you look great and I throw it.  04:22 - Lau (Host) This old thing, yeah, this old thing, it's been hanging in my closet Doesn't mean but you look terrific, you look amazing. We'll throw it right back at the other person, which they don't realize oftentimes. That is a passive aggressive non accepting value, because it's not just a compliment, it's showcasing your value.  04:43 - Anne (Host) It's almost like when you throw it back and it's not that you don't mean it, but sometimes when you throw it back immediately, it's almost like you don't accept what they're giving to you and you're like, oh no, you look great. And so then it becomes that kind of a battle of maybe, well, who's giving here and who's the gracious receiver right?  05:00 - Intro (Announcement) There's gracious giving and there's gracious receiving.  05:03 - Anne (Host) And I truly believe that it needs to be within our boss superpowers to be able to receive and something that's we're talking a little more on maybe a loftier level in terms of nothing that has monetary value, but definitely has value like a compliment right, an act of kindness, that sort of thing. What about money Lau? I mean, how hard is it sometimes for us to accept for a job Well done, I'm happy to accept money, but thinking about, am I worth the money, am I asking for enough money? And what if I get more money? And is that hard for me to receive? Because, again, we have some of these mental issues sometimes with accepting money and that really kind of, I think, goes back to our value or our feelings of self worth.  05:47 - Lau (Host) Yes, yes, yes, yes. And you know what that money may be in money form and it may go towards an actual gift right. And I recently received. One of the gifts in the mail I literally just got within a week ago was from a client of mine who sent me one of those beautiful boxes for a holiday for. Thanksgiving that was chock full of coffee, beans and caramel and just everything under the sun.  06:09 - Anne (Host) And.  06:09 - Lau (Host) I was so surprised when I opened it up. I was so amazed that someone was thinking of me in that way, but how I reacted to it now, on retrospect, when I look at that, what did I do immediately? I thanked her, I loved it, and then I immediately started to give it away. I immediately started to offering to my clients coming through that.  06:29 - Anne (Host) I see to my family.  06:30 - Lau (Host) Oh, here, let me share, let me, here, let me give this to you. Let me share this to you. And I oftentimes wonder is a gift really meant for you when it's given to you, or is it meant for you to do what you see fit with that gift? So, if you get the monetary cash and you want to give it to charity, how would that person, how would the giver actually feel about that if they really wanted to give it to you? That's an interesting question.  06:56 - Anne (Host) Yeah, that is an interesting question. Well, you know what I think? That if a gift is given, it is because or at least for me, the person that is giving it wants to extend a gift for the other person to experience joy, I would think, and appreciation, and I feel like for me, whatever they choose to do with it, I mean, unless I feel like they secretly hate it and they gave it away and they're like, oh gosh, this is like what is it called?  07:21 - Intro (Announcement) An elephant gift. An elephant gift yes exactly.  07:24 - Anne (Host) And so then I would be a little hurt if I knew. But I think my intentions are to provide a token of appreciation, a token of here's how I feel about you. And if the other person doesn't accept it for themselves graciously at first, and then I realize, oh, maybe they've immediately given it away or something, then I would be hurt. I would be hurt by that Feeling like they've rejected my gift.  07:45 - Lau (Host) But, annie, let's be honest, we've all done that. Haven't we all gotten that scarf? Or those gloves that are just the ugliest thing in the world, do you think? Oh, they're itchy, they don't really fit me. Well, let me, elephant, gift that to someone who will appreciate it. And if not, you notice people are starting to say if you don't want it, it's okay, pass it on. I'm like a donate.  08:05 - Anne (Host) The other thing would be like here's one things that people have made for me. Now, this could be homemade food. This could be homemade gifts. This could be my grandmother knitting me a sweater, or my mother knitted me.  08:18 I'm gonna get me all teary, but my mother, she knitted me afghans and blankets, and my aunt used to so close for me, and it reminds me of the bunny suit on a Christmas story with Ralphie, and so you accept that and you're grateful for it, because there was thought and love put into the gift and so receiving that means that you're receiving that love. You're receiving that gift.  08:41 - Lau (Host) You're receiving it, you're suck it up. You do you do. You're totally, because it's not the color of your bedroom and it just is not the feel that you wanna put on your body, but you love it. You put it on display somewhere. You just have to appreciate that, right. What about this one? What about from a philosophical point of view? As we live our lives every day around the holiday season, how are we viewing gifts that are given by others or by the universe? Are we recognizing any gifts, gifts?  09:09 - Anne (Host) from the universe Locke. Let's delve deeper into that. So what gifts from the universe? What would be some examples? I like that.  09:16 - Lau (Host) Well, I'm a New Englander, so on the New England track. I think all of us can relate that come from cold weather climates and when I have more, temperate weather or. I have a winter where we're not like snowed in and killing ourselves with the slush. To me, I recognize that as an immense gift.  09:35 - Anne (Host) Nice and Californians are very grateful for rain.  09:38 - Lau (Host) Yes, oh yes, yes, yes, yes. How about the gift of looking in the mirror and seeing yourself for what you actually see, not for what you want to see? So that is, as you age, seeing the wrinkles, seeing the imperfections, seeing the scars, but then feeling like, wow, there's a gift in there for me of understanding.  10:02 - Anne (Host) That represents my life, my heart. Here I have to tell you because my own personal experience. I have lost a little bit of weight and so I look at my body, which is now kind of a wrinkly because I got some skin, and I look at that and I'm like, ok, that could be considered by some to not be attractive, but for me it's almost like it's a battle scar. It's like you know what I'm proud of?  10:23 my body I am proud, I am grateful. I am actually so grateful for my body, for being resilient and for the things that my body has been through, and I think that we can apply this to our businesses as well right, our journey as our businesses. But, like my body has been through a journey, my mentality, my entrepreneurship has been through a journey, and I'm grateful for all of it because I've survived it and I've been able to come out the other side more joyful and educated and more motivated to do even more. And so I really try to take a look at that and be grateful for that gift from the universe right that I have received. And I love that we kind of brought the gifts from the universe into this discussion, because I think we have them every day and we don't always recognize them for what they are and we aren't always receiving them or acknowledging them with the amount of gratitude or thought that I think we should.  11:23 - Lau (Host) Right, or even just mindfulness, conscientiousness of seeing it and observing. We talk about it from an actor's point of view, but from a human point of view, are you really seeing what is in front of you? What are you uncovering? And since we're diving deep, I'll go one deeper, because you're not only surviving and you're thriving in the gratefulness and recognition, in the gift of that, and that's what makes you so beautiful, both aesthetically but also inside. There's a beauty and a light that happens in you. To me that's very recognizable and I'm going to dive even deeper. I'm going to say I have someone very close to my family suffering from a very deadly illness and eating it and I watch it every day go into remission and I watch it turn around and I watch it Now, from the outside, this person is somewhat suffering and all of that. From the inside, I see that little soul, that little spirit winning and I'm like a gift a gift, a gift, a gift every day.  12:28 - Anne (Host) It's so true.  12:29 - Lau (Host) If I lose the job, if I don't look good one day, whatever, this is the gift that I'm going to keep coming back to, of course, and I totally identify with that.  12:38 - Anne (Host) I mean it is, and we've talked about this before.  12:41 I mean, yeah, when someone that you love or someone you're close to is going through a challenge mental challenge, health challenge, whatever that might be I mean, in reality, it really points us towards knowing and understanding what those gifts are. And I've said it before, when I was going through my own health challenge, I mean, once I got back in the studio, I was like gosh, what was I ever worried about? You know, here I was thinking, oh, my voice doesn't sound in a particular way or I'd worry about those things, and I'm like my gosh, I have just been given this immense gift and I'm here to be able to experience and here to be able to just do what I love in this booth and just be, just be and be grateful. And well, I'll tell you what that comes through in our voices, doesn't it? It emanates from us and, as performers, I think that it behooves us to be good receivers, right Of the gifts that are being given to us, because it just absorbs into our energy and just radiates out from our performances.  13:39 - Lau (Host) It so does, and I mean the gift of knowledge of how to give as well, so like, for instance, when it comes to philanthropy and charity. I love that. I'm big in that. I'll give a quick plug to our 100 voices who care.  13:54 - Intro (Announcement) We love.  13:54 - Lau (Host) Claire and the gang we love so much. I'm a member and to me it's such a relief, it's such a relief gift to me to figure out how to give in a very safe and impactful and thought away. And as long as I make money, I'm going to give forever because I don't have to think about it. It's one less thing I have to think about because I know it's vetted, I know it's legit and I know the people come from their heart and soul. Wow, to me that's a gift.  14:23 - Anne (Host) Exactly, and you know, the cool thing about 100 Voices who Care is, honestly, it does not take a lot of money, and that's really what the big thing is, and it's literally $100, four times a year, and that's it. And ultimately that, combined with the community, the togetherness that is also in kind, donating that, that is $10,000 that can be given to people in need or organizations in need, and I think that that's absolutely wonderful and I think, really, whatever giving charity that you want, again giving that and then expecting that the people who are in need are receiving that and they're grateful for it right, that's what makes the world go round and that's what I think really giving is so easy to talk about, because I love to give myself and I mean I consider the VoBoss we're giving of ourselves joyfully, because it's something that we both love to do, we love to share, we love to be a resource, we love to help if we can, and that's what we're here for.  15:19 But I really really also want bosses out there to understand the importance of being able to see and acknowledge and receive in kind and be okay, it is for you, it doesn't have to be for anybody else, you don't have to feel compelled to turn around and give it somewhere else.  15:36 I fully believe that if a gift is meant for you and you love it and you keep it for yourself, you give in other ways, right? I mean it doesn't have to be that you have to turn around and feel like, oh, I either need to give that gift or give a portion of that gift, or you can keep it. I mean it's okay, it was meant for you and love, and that is something that I think is really wonderful. And, of course, I mean let's make it more from a business perspective, right, being able to ask for the money that you deserve for a job that has been well done is, first of all, when you do that yes, do that but when you get that actual money and you receive that money, then you'll notice that I feel like the cycle or the circle has been completed.  16:18 - Lau (Host) Yes, absolutely. And here's another one that is amazing but can be tricky in how it's received. You and I, I know I'm grateful and fortunate that we're nominated.  16:27 You and I and our companies for SOVA's nominations, which I'm thrilled I'm over the moon. So when I learned that now you've been nominated for years now that was my first time around being nominated when I learned that it challenged me a little I'll be honest with you. It challenged me. I had to sit there and go, well, okay, do I deserve that? Is that okay, do I deserve that? Was there anyone that deserves it more than me? Or, like it challenged me in a way, I was over the moon, thrilled. I love to be a part of it, the community be recognized. But at the end of the day, you have to sit alone with yourself and say I did this, we did this, I did this and I accept the good things coming my way, along with the challenging things as well.  17:14 It's like you have to have a little conversation with yourself about that and I'm very careful, like I don't want my head to be big. I don't want to be gloaty about it, I don't want to hold it over anyone else. I want to be very humane about the recognition that I slash we as the company get because I feel so grateful for it. I don't feel like, oh, of course I deserved it, I'm the best. I feel like that's going in a direction of morality that is not of high integrity. The highest integrity people are people who are humble and they're modest and they have humility about themselves and their work. Those are the people that I always have admiration for yeah, absolutely, I love that.  17:54 - Anne (Host) And receiving acknowledgement right Receiving acknowledgement is absolutely another important, very important, I think, factor in really having fulfilling and successful entrepreneurial journeys and businesses right.  18:08 I think a lot of times what happens? We get a lot of people coming into this industry that are so unhappy and there are jobs, because I always tell people in the corporate world all we really want is love. All we want is love and acknowledgement right Like validation. It helps to make money right so you can pay the bills. Absolutely, I mean that's first and foremost.  18:26 But I think a lot of times when people are dissatisfied with their work, it's because they've really put their heart and soul into it and nobody's acknowledged that and nobody has really recognized that or given them a compliment or credited them for that, and so that, I think, is one source of people really wanting to come into business for themselves. And so now when we're entrepreneurs feedback that we get and it's rare that we get feedback from clients right, unless we go out and ask for it, which I'm the biggest fan of, going out and getting testimonials right Get yourself that acknowledgement. But also, when it comes unexpectedly, it's something that I think we need to be prepared to just receive it and be grateful for it and really know that you're worth it, because there's something to be said about people who are constantly degrading or downplaying or shunning those compliments or acknowledgments or awards, and we did a podcast on awards. There's just there's lots of different opinions about awards. Do people need an award to do their business? Not necessarily.  19:26 But I'll tell you sometimes that recognition very similar to being in a corporate job or whatever it might be getting a little bit of recognition can really help emotionally. Mental I mean. I feel like everything in life it all stems mentally and then it kind of I'm going to say, pushes out physically, right. Like I feel like everything is in our head, like that's what is controlling the earth, right? Our thoughts, right, I feel it's our thoughts and how we feel about ourselves and how we feel about others and how we treat it. It just directly affects the physical everything and I think that it's so important.  19:59 - Lau (Host) I just rambled off on this kind of tangent, but I think it's all related, right, it's all related because if think of any relationship we have, like I love acknowledging, I love validating, I love giving compliments, I love that it doesn't only make me feel good, it's necessary, it's like, okay, we're going to be tough on someone, we're going to give honest feedback, we're going to say no to someone, we're going to be harsh at times, but it's really important to have those moments where you go you know what, I'm really proud of you. Or hey, you did it, Nicely done. I'm so excited for you.  20:34 Because otherwise I find people in general get really down on themselves very fast and then lose steam, lose energy, lose motivation, because they ultimately start to want to please or be liked by the casting, producer, coach, whatever, and it becomes personalized in that way. So it's like a fine line. I of course, want to have that no-like and trust factor. Of course I want to have that in the business world. But there's a fine line Like we don't want to be motivated to only be liked and only be validated, right.  21:11 Otherwise you're seeking to receive things all the time which are not earned they're not always well earned. They're just that little honor, that little star, for no reason. I want to live in a meritocracy. Still, I want to be rewarded when I'm earned.  21:27 - Anne (Host) Yeah, I love that you brought that up because you're right, Seeking to receive all the time is not good either. Being able to receive is one thing, but seeking to always have likes or stuff like that is also not healthy and doesn't create for a healthy business either. Right, when you're constantly seeking approval and I think that really kind of stems from other issues, like when you're seeking approval all the time, and that could be a whole other podcast Lau.  21:51 - Lau (Host) That is a whole other podcast approval. Yeah, how do we respond to all of the things that happen in our world that are not what we want or not what we're expecting to come back to us? How do we respond to those things Like not being nominated, not getting the award, not getting? How do we respond to that?  22:13 - Anne (Host) That always is a little pain, oh, always a pain, even when you know better, like myself, and we know we've been on both sides right when we want that acknowledgement, we want that award, we want that feedback, and sometimes it just doesn't come back to us the way that we want. And so how do we deal with that right? Again, that's not necessarily a rejection right of something that you're receiving, it's that you haven't received it. And so now, what? Now, what do you do with that longing, that desire, that hope? How do you get yourself back in balance?  22:44 - Lau (Host) That's right. That's right. Balance is really the key because the more balanced we are, the more we can easily give and offer and receive and take. And not do it from an ego point of view, not do it from this heavy ego centric, really do it from a place that's very balanced and very open and very like. It's like a give and take of Feng Shui. You know what I mean. Like you're cleansing Every time you give something away. I find when I Feng Shui my office or my studio and I give things away, if it's received well, I feel cleansed right, and if I'm receiving something, well, I feel cleansed.  23:19 There's like a cathartic thing that happens, a purification that happens if it's not coming from pure ego which. I love. I think it's fabulous.  23:27 - Anne (Host) I can talk Clear the clutter, clear the clutter, clear the clutter, physically clear the clutter in your brain. I mean it can really do a lot to propel you and your business forward. Absolutely, absolutely. What a really cool conversation Lau. I love it, I love it Beautiful I love it, guys.  23:43 And, as we spoke about before, 100 Voices who Care, simple Mission, big Impact 100 Voices, 1 hour, $10,000,. Guys, you can really make an impact. Visit 100voiceswhocareorg to find out more and big shout out to our sponsor, ipdtl. Gosh, I love IPDTL, I just love IPDTL. They give us the opportunity to give and receive Lau at UNI back and forth for this podcast, and I absolutely love the fact that we can connect and do so. Find out more at IPDTLcom. You guys have an amazing week and we'll see you next week. Bye.  24:19 - Lau (Host) See you next time.  24:21 - Intro (Announcement) Join us next week for another edition of VoBoss with your host, Ann Gangusa, and take your business to the next level. Sign up for our mailing list at vobosscom and receive exclusive content, industry revolutionizing tips and strategies and new ways to rock your business like a boss. Redistribution, with permission. Coast-to-coast connectivity via IPDTL.   

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A heated mountain getaway for Elizabeth and Kyle.By ElizabethSam. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories.She was now 44 and officially un-hitched, Elizabeth adjusted to newly divorced life pretty seamlessly and easily. She was loving her freedom, her home, and her chance to create a new start for herself. Even not having her kid for days at a time wasn't as bad as she had originally anticipated. Yes, it sucked not having him around all the time, but having some time completely to herself - to be just Elizabeth and not Mom Elizabeth - was pretty awesome, she had to admit.One tough thing about not having her kid around everyday though was trying to fill all of her free time. She did her best to pack her schedule: meeting with friends, taking walks, working out, watching shows, shopping, and doing chores around the house, but even still, there were a lot of hours to fill. And with time on her hands, she found herself often browsing and window shopping online for all sorts of things.One such night, with nothing much to do, she found herself on VRBO looking at cabin rentals with hot tubs, mostly just daydreaming and creating a made up vacation in her mind. Until, that is, she stumbled on a cabin in a mountain town about an hour and a half away. With a private hot tub. With great reviews. Not too pricey. And with availability that coincided with her kid-free days. “Hmm,” she thought to herself. “Free cancellation too? What the hell!” as she whipped out her credit card and made the spontaneous reservation.A few days later, Elizabeth was down at Kyle's and they were sitting on his couch catching up. “So, you know how I have all this free time now?” she said sheepishly. “Well, I got bored the other night and did something impulsive,” she started, “….and I rented this cabin,” she blurted out as she pulled up the VRBO listing on her phone. “Check it out,” and she handed her phone to Kyle. “So, wanna go to New Hampshire with me next month? It's in the mountains, right near a state park” she explained, “….and it has a hot tub,” she added in a sing-songy voice.He chuckled. “Looks pretty awesome,” as he scrolled through the pictures. “What dates?”“It's two nights. Go up on December second and come back on the fourth. Think you can go?”“I have to check with work. And I have to see if I have anything going on with the kids, but I think I should be free. Can I let you know next week?”“Yeah, of course. There's free cancellation for another 3 weeks, so yeah…” she trailed off, excited that this mountain getaway/hot-tub/sexy-time trip with Kyle might actually happen.Next week, he texted her and let her know the trip was a go and Elizabeth was thrilled!Fast forward a few weeks, Their trip was now just a day away. Elizabeth was excitedly packing and getting ready for their getaway:Cold weather clothes? Check.Snow boots? Check.Card game? Check.Toothbrush? Check.Sexy undies? Check.Toys? Lube? Check and check.Bathing suit? No need.She packed another bag full of snacks and drinks and was soon all ready to go.Kyle arrived at Elizabeth's later the next morning as she was finishing up work. She snuck out of her Zoom call to give him a long kiss. Her heart always skipped a beat when she saw him. At just over six feet tall, he was slim but strong, with a neatly trimmed beard and matching buzz cut, sprinkled with grays. She thought he was handsome, rugged, and sexy as hell.“This meeting was supposed to be over half an hour ago,” she said with an eye roll “; but it should be over soon and then we can get going.”“No problem…I'll just chill on the couch until you're done,” and he went to hang out in the living room until she finished up her call.A few minutes later, she signed off the Zoom, closed out her email and shut everything down.“All done!” she said as she joined him in the living room, plopping down onto him and bringing her lips to his. “Sorry, that took longer than I expected, but I told work not to bother me from here on out.”“No worries,” he replied with a smile and a kiss. “You all packed?”“Yep, all set. My bags are by the door. Just have to pee and then I think I'm ready to go.”Kyle packed her bags in his truck while she went to pee and shut off the lights and then she joined him in the truck.“Ready?” he asked as she climbed into his truck.“Ready!” she said enthusiastically and then leaned in for a little kiss.“Which way do I go?”“Super easy, just head over to Rt 104 and then we just stay on that for like an hour and a half and then we're practically there.”They headed off, stopping for lunch along the way. When they pulled into town, they popped into the grocery store to grab some food so they could cook some meals in the cabin. As they got back into this truck, Elizabeth got a text. “Oh! Cabin's ready early so we can check in now,” she read out loud.They arrived at the cabin a little after two in the afternoon and were impressed right off the bat. Calling it a cabin was a bit of an understatement. It was a big, cedar-sided house set amongst large pine trees in a sparsely populated neighborhood. “Wow, looks nice,” Elizabeth remarked as they parked in the freshly plowed driveway. They unlocked the door and took a little tour of the place at first. A good size kitchen, living room/dining room combo with a wood stove, bedroom with a rustic four poster bed and a bathroom made up the main floor. Upstairs, there were two small bedrooms and downstairs there was another bedroom, bathroom and living area and, most importantly, access to the hot tub.“I call the bedroom on the main floor. Which bedroom do you want?” Elizabeth teased.Kyle laughed and gave her a kiss. “Very funny; let's go get our things and then maybe we can check out that hot tub.”They unpacked the truck and settled in quickly. They took their bags to the bedroom and Elizabeth was getting out the towels. “You serious about wanting to check out the hot tub now?” she asked Kyle who was standing near her next to the bed.“Well, yeah. But first….” and his volume drifted off as he brought Elizabeth into an embrace, meeting his soft lips to hers. His hands pressed into her back, pulling her closer to him. At just 5'4", she had to stand on her tip-toes to approach his height. She reached her arms up around his neck, emitting soft little moans during their passionate kiss. They'd not seen each other for a few weeks so there was a lot of pent up passion and energy in that kiss.Kyle gently leaned forward, laying Elizabeth down onto her back and then he crawled on top of her, their lips barely leaving one another's as they transitioned to the comfort of the bed. They continued their make out session for a few heated moments, their soft lips pressing together, their tongues darting in and out, their breaths and heartbeats speeding up. The weight of Kyle's strong body pressed upon hers, as well as the bulge she could feel in his pants, was turning her on immensely. She exhaled a deep and slow breath along with a soft moan.Kyle eased off of the bed and reached down to unbutton Elizabeth's jeans. He peeled her jeans and panties off in one motion revealing her neatly trimmed mound. While he quickly undressed, she reached down and pulled her socks off and then whipped her shirt and bra off and laid back onto the bed. He then lay down over her, returning his lips to hers. The heat from his body and the heat of his erection added to the heat she was already feeling. They continued ravishing each other with kisses, their lips sometimes moving to each other's necks, ears, and shoulders. It was frantic and heated, sensual and impassioned.They rolled onto their sides, their bodies still pressed upon one another, their hands caressing each other. Elizabeth intertwined her legs with his as they continued their fiery make out session. Kyle then eased away and spun himself around so they were now in a side lying sixty-nine. She positioned the foot of her top leg behind Kyle's head, giving him easy access to her wet pussy and she grasped Kyle's throbbing cock in her soft hand and guided him to her mouth, eagerly taking him in. Kyle wasted no time in reaching his tongue to her silky opening and he began lapping up her sweet, intimate juices. His tongue made broad, swirling strokes from her entry up to her clit while, at the same time, she hungrily moved her lips along his cock, drippily covering him in her saliva.Her blowjob wouldn't have earned her any awards though. It was a frenzied mix of tongue and lips, licks and sucks, and Elizabeth tried her best to maintain pressure and focus on his manhood, but that was increasingly difficult as Kyle worked his magic on her snatch. She had to keep taking moments to catch her breath as small little orgasms welled up inside of her. When she returned her mouth to his shaft, she couldn't help but let out a constant, low moan. Kyle began rapidly flicking the tip of his tongue on her clit and that was it. She could barely stand it.“Oh my god,” she wailed, releasing her mouth from him. “I want your cock inside me now,” she demanded as she pushed him onto his back. She spun around and straddled atop him and sank her body deep onto his cock, his thickness filling her up, inch by inch.“Fuck that feels good,” she said, breathlessly as their bodies connected in the most intimate of ways.She began pulsing her muscles on his penis as his strong hands slid up her thighs, over her hips and then to her ass. Biting her lower lip, she arched her back slightly, pressing her 38B breasts forward. She ran her hands through her shoulder length brown hair, pulling her head back slightly as she did so. They stared deep into each other's eyes, the blue of their eyes like the blue heat of a flame. She pulsed, gyrated and rode his cock in this position for a few minutes, loving every second of it and loving every little twinge of his dick within her.Kyle then moved himself to sit upright a bit more, leaning back on the pillows against the headboard and this new angle allowed Elizabeth to press herself even deeper onto his cock. His hands reached under her ass, giving her an assist as she gained speed on his member. Up and down she rode him, her breasts bouncing in motion with her movements.After a few minutes of riding him like that, she repositioned her legs, so they were behind Kyle and she guided him to sit fully upright. He bent his legs behind her and their hands pressed into each other's backs. Sitting like this, so intimately connected, they paused their movements and, instead, she just squeezed her muscles on him. They held each other tight, her breasts pressing into his chest, their mouths and lips coming together, devouring each other with kisses.Kyle then took over, managing to reposition the two of them while keeping his cock deeply rooted inside of her. He lifted Elizabeth up and then eased her onto her back, laying his body on top of hers. “Nicely done there, mister,” she said with a chuckle.“I got skills,” he jokingly returned and then he began quickly pounding into her warm, velvety tunnel. The bed squeaked and rocked slightly with each powerful thrust. With her legs wrapped around his, her hands wrapped around his back, and her nails digging in lightly to his skin, she pulled him closer with each downward thrust and tightened her muscles around his cock.Both kind of normally quiet and reserved, Elizabeth turned into the loud one in the bedroom, and she spouted a whole range of expletives, screams and moans as Kyle pressed into her.“Fuck, fuck, fuck! Oh my god!” she screamed. She had been craving his cock for the past few weeks and he felt so good.She tried to wriggle her hand down to her mound so she could rub her nub and add to the pleasure but, instead, Kyle disengaged and flipped her over onto her stomach, seemingly, in one fluid motion. He hurriedly rammed his cock back into Elizabeth's wet entry and she let out an “oh god” at the sensation.She managed now to slide her hand underneath her and the added friction between her clit, her hand and the bed took her right to the edge. “Oh my god, please don't stop!” she begged. A monstrous orgasm was swelling inside her. “Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop!” And within seconds, her body was shuddering from her shoulders to her toes. Little spasms rippled through her and she let out an enormous exhalation. Kyle took a pause from his action and leaned down to her, meeting her lips in a kiss before sitting back upright and dragging his fingers along her back.“Holy shit…. You don't know how much I've been wanting that these past few weeks,” she said to him while still catching her breath.“I think I could guess…probably about as much as I've been wanting you these past few weeks,” he said to her while taking the moment to pull her ass back towards him, giving her a playful slap on the cheek.With her ass in the air and forearms on the bed, he ran his thumb over her wet opening and to her asshole and Elizabeth let out a little gasp. He repeated that motion a few times, before making little swirling motions with her lubrication on her puckered hole. He released a mouthful of saliva onto her hole and then brought his cock to her tight entry, slowly pressing it into her.“Slow,” she requested as it had been awhile since they'd done any anal play. He caringly obliged and just held the tip of his cock in her back door before slowly pressing forth, little by little. She exhaled long and deep, relaxing her body and taking him in. As her body eased, his cock slid further in until he was balls deep in her ass. Slowly and gently, he slid his dick back and forth in her tight tunnel, gaining a little more speed with each pass until he was thrusting hard and fast in her ass.She reached down and pressed her index finger into her vagina and was able to feel his cock sliding back and forth through her tunnel walls. He moistened his fingers in his mouth and reached down to her clit and began rubbing her quickly as well. With so many nerves being excited, she couldn't hold back from screaming and moaning loudly. As her cries got louder, his actions became more rapid and soon they both were edging close to thunderous orgasms.“Oh my god!” she wailed. “Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!” She was about to explode. And with a few more thrusts from his cock in her ass, her finger in her pussy, and the added friction on her clit, she did explode. A tidal wave of pleasure rolled through her like a tsunami. Giving her no time to recover, Kyle was quickly approaching his own tsunami. His balls tightened, his breaths became short and he let out a few little gasps before he released with an “Oh god,” and a heavy grunt as his spunk filled her ass, one spurt after another and another. With his balls emptied, they both let out a deep, heavy, contented sigh and she gasped a little as he pulled his softening cock out of her and fell back onto the bed.“Oh my god,” she uttered under her breath as she lay there completely spent.“Uh, yeah,” was all he could manage to say as he caught his breath and came down from his orgasmic high. “I'll go get you a towel.”He came back with a towel and they cleaned up and then the two of them lay on the bed, happy, but worn out, their breathing starting to return to normal.Elizabeth turned to Kyle and gave him a quick kiss. “Now what?” she asked.“I dunno; naptime?” he half-joked.“Sounds good to me,” as she snuggled up next to him, her head on his chest, curled up in his arms and they both began to doze off.They rested for about half an hour before fluttering awake, feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.“I'm going to go rinse off in the shower,” Elizabeth said to Kyle as she eased off the bed. “Then maybe we can go check out the hot tub?”“Yeah, definitely,” Kyle responded.After Elizabeth took a quick rinse, they both wrapped themselves in some towels and headed down to the hot tub. The late afternoon air was shockingly cold on their exposed skin and Elizabeth shifted on her feet trying to keep warm as Kyle removed the hot tub cover. With a roof covering the hot tub, they didn't have to worry about the light snow that had begun falling. But with the trees in winter mode at the back of the yard, there wasn't total privacy between the hot tub and the apartment building just a few hundred feet away so they quickly removed their towels and scampered into the hot tub before any neighbors could catch a peek.“Ah,” they both said simultaneously as they sank their naked bodies into the water.“Oh my god, this is amazing,” Elizabeth remarked as the warm water and bubbles surrounded her.“Yeah, this is pretty awesome,” he replied, leaning his head back in bliss.They sat next to each other, their thighs pressed against one another, enjoying the crisp mountain air contrasted against the heat of the hot tub. It was perfect.They occasionally shifted around, adjusting their bodies to the jets and then Elizabeth found a jet on one of the seats.“Oh! That's a fun jet!” she said with a giggle as she sat upon it. He laughed as she enjoyed the pulsating water hitting her snatch. After a few moments of that, Elizabeth floated her way over to Kyle and straddled his legs. They made out for a bit and Kyle caressed Elizabeth's breasts as they floated just beneath the surface. She ran her hand along his erect cock bobbing in the water below. She arched her back, sitting a little more upright and her breasts were now just out of the water. He brought his tongue down to her chest and flicked his tongue over her nipples before sucking them into his mouth.“Oh god,” she breathlessly whispered as she ran her hands through his soft hair.Elizabeth then guided his cock into her entry and she sank down onto him and they began to slowly and wordlessly fuck. With the water stealing away Elizabeth's natural lubrication and still a bit tuckered out from before, their movements were easy, relaxed, and rhythmic; it was more like a make out session with an added bonus. As she rose up on his cock, her breasts just escaped the water before sinking back down below again. She held her hands on his shoulders, pressing herself down against the water's buoyancy.In the near distance, they could see someone pull into the apartment building parking lot and get out of their car. They exchanged sly little smiles and kissed, while continuing their gentle afternoon fuck. They continued for a few moments and, before long, a small orgasm swelled inside Elizabeth.“Oh!” she exclaimed, pulsing her muscles along his cock before reaching down to meet his lips with hers. They separated their bodies and Elizabeth drifted onto the seat next to Kyle. She looked over her shoulder to him and gave him a cheeky smile. “Well then,” she simply said. He chuckled in response and gave a little wiggle of his eyebrows and a playful squeeze on her thigh.“I wonder what time it is?” she asked a little bit later.“No clue. But I could probably eat soon,” he responded.“Yeah, me too.”They made their way out of the hot tub and rushed back in the house to escape the winter air. Seeing that it was just around five o'clock, they decided to hop in the shower, have a snack, and watch a movie before dinner. After the movie, they made dinner together and Elizabeth was impressed, but not surprised, at how helpful Kyle was in the kitchen. They made a good team and got along well outside of the bedroom too. Stuffed from dinner, they rounded out the evening with some board games and then snuggled naked in bed watching a show on Netflix on Elizabeth's laptop. Mid-way through the show, Elizabeth looked over and saw Kyle had drifted off, so she closed the laptop and curled up next to him and was soon fast asleep herself.Sometime in the middle of the night,Elizabeth awoke with a tingling between her legs. Kyle was sound asleep, spooning her in his arms. She hated to wake him and she tried to ignore the feeling, but every time she moved her hips and pelvis, the feeling only got stronger. She began to ever so gently rock her hips and ass back towards Kyle, her bare butt cheeks pressing onto him. Each push/pull sent a little pulsation rushing between her legs. As she repeated her motions, she felt his cock stir to life and so she made her movements a little more pronounced. She slowly slid her hand up and down along Kyle's thigh, then gently grazed his member and felt it bob and bounce around. A deep exhale escaped her body.She heard Kyle's breathing become more heavy and she knew he was waking up. Without words, she continued her simple rocking motion, forward, backward, forward, backward, and she could now feel his firm erection pressing against her ass.Kyle stirred a little and then just silently guided his cock into her warm, wet opening. Elizabeth thought to herself how there was something so intimate and so connected when their bodies just melded together without words exchanged. An audible gasp escaped Elizabeth's lips as his cock slid into her and filled her up. With his dick now deep inside her, she pressed her body back against Kyle's and they began to rock in motion together. He reached his arm around to her chest, gripping her breasts in his hand, and pulled her back towards him with each thrust. Quiet moans from Elizabeth and heavy breathing from Kyle were the only sounds in the darkened room as their bodies moved in sync.Kyle gave Elizabeth a kiss on the shoulder before he pulled out, eliciting a little whimper from her. She rolled onto her back and Kyle knelt on the bed. He plunged his cock back into her and she let out a breathy sigh, followed by a long, low moan. With her legs pressed together, she had a tight hold on his dick and he began to pick up speed and intensity. She began to rub her fingers on her mound as he continued pressing hard and fast into her and within moments she was riding an orgasmic wave.“Oh god,” she whispered as her muscles squeezed around his cock and the electricity pulsed through her. Kyle leaned down and kissed her gently before easing out of her and rolling onto the bed next to her.Elizabeth turned to him and whispered, “thanks,” and gave him a kiss. “You wanna keep going?” she asked.“I'm good as long as you're good,” he said with a little chuckle.“I think I can make it until morning,” she replied with a little laugh and the two of them quickly fell back asleep until morning.The next morning.A light snow was falling. They both stirred awake around eight am, a rare treat for them both to be able to sleep past six.“Morning,” Kyle said to Elizabeth as his eyes fluttered open.“Morning,” she smiled back at him. “How'd you sleep?”“Real good. You?”“Pretty good. although I seem to remember not sleeping the entire night,” she jokingly replied.The two eventually crawled out of bed, pulled on some clothes, brushed their teeth and then made their way to the kitchen to make breakfast. As they ate, they talked about what they could do that day.“So, are you up for going on a hike at the lake? And maybe up to Stone Ledge? ” she asked him.“Yeah, let's do it. I think the snow's supposed to stop later this morning.”“Great; and then maybe dinner out tonight?”“Sounds like a plan. I don't think we bought enough food to make anything for dinner anyway.”“And, of course, more hot tub time.”“Of course,” he said with a definitive nod of his head and a smile.They finished up breakfast and cleaned up. Kyle built a fire in the wood stove and they just lounged around for awhile waiting for the weather to warm up a little and the snow to stop.A few hours later, they set off and the weather was perfect for a winter hike. The snow was just barely falling and there wasn't any wind so it wasn't unbearably cold. And no bugs or snakes to deal with either, which was always a plus in Elizabeth's book. They hiked about halfway around the lake and then started their way up to Stone Ledge.About midway through the hike, it started to get steeper and a bit more treacherous and Kyle assisted Elizabeth on the slippery parts. They carefully continued on the snowy trail, stopping a few times along the way to rest, kiss, and take in the silence of the wintery woods. Eventually, they made it to the top and the view was pretty spectacular. And based on the lack of footprints in the snow, no one else had ventured up to the top other than them. They stood atop the ledge, taking in the view, snapped some pictures, and then leaned in for a long and sensual kiss. After a few minutes, they began their journey back down, taking a much simpler and less slippery path.When they finally got back to Kyle's truck, they were starving and went directly to pick up some lunch and then made their way back to the cabin. After they scarfed down lunch they decided another dip in the hot tub was in order.“Ah, this is perfect after our hike up Everest today,” Elizabeth joked as she sunk her naked body into the water.“Definitely. I can't believe we made it to the summit alive,” he added with a chuckle.Much like yesterday afternoon, they enjoyed the jets, the warmth of the water, and the heat of their passion as they made out and enjoyed another little afternoon hot tub fuck.“I definitely want to come back in here later tonight when it's dark out,” she commented as they were getting out of the hot tub.“Yeah, totally. We gotta make use of this thing while we can.”They headed inside and straight into the shower together. It was a stand up shower stall, about the same size as a standard bathtub, large enough for both of them to be in there comfortably, and it featured two little bench seats on either end. After they rinsed off the suds, they came together for a deep kiss, their tongues and lips melding under the heat of the water. The water flowed down over their necks and down their chests as they hungrily made out. Kyle then eased his lips away from Elizabeth and turned her to face towards the shower wall and slid his wet cock into her pussy. With her hands pressed on the shower wall and his hands on her hips, he drove into her hard and fast.“Oh fuck, oh god,” she repeatedly cried in pleasure. She turned her head to look behind her and they shared a look of fiery lust. After a few more moments like this, he pulled out and spun her back around. Their lips met again, full of heat and passion.Kyle then picked up Elizabeth and pressed her up against the long wall of the shower. She spread her legs, resting a foot on each of the little bench seats. This position provided Kyle the perfect height to return his dick back inside her eager pussy. With a forceful thrust, he plunged his hardness back into her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and shoulders, pulling him closer in with every push and clamped her muscles on his cock with each thrust. Heated breaths and moans flowed over her lips as she was overcome with his lustful takeover.“Oh my god, this is so fucking hot,” she whispered as her back was pressed into the wall and the water continued flowing over their passion.“I can't help it…you're so fucking hot,” he breathed in returned with a sultry smile.“Oh god,” Elizabeth moaned. So turned on by his words, she hungrily returned her lips to his.They continued their hot, wet, passionate fuck in the shower for awhile; until suddenly the water went cold!“Ahh!” they both shrieked and Kyle quickly repositioned the showerhead away from them and then shut the water off.“Guess that's it for the hot water,” he said as he pulled out of her.“Well shit,” Elizabeth complained with a pout on her lips. She eased herself off of the bench seats. “I'm not finished with you,” she added, giving his ass a playful slap as they reluctantly exited the shower. They dried off in a hurry, Elizabeth quickly towel dried her hair, and then they scrambled back to the bedroom to continue where they left off.Once back in the bedroom, they wasted no time in getting back to business, tumbling all over the bed together. Kyle on top. Elizabeth on top. Kyle from behind. Lying on their sides. Kyle going down on Elizabeth. Elizabeth going down on Kyle. It was as if they were going through their rolodex of sexual positions and giving them all a go. It was fun, frantic and heated and definitely warmed them up after the chilly end to their shower.At one point, Elizabeth was on her back and Kyle was pressing deep inside her when she remembered the toys she had brought. Thankfully, they were within reach in her bag on the table beside the bed. She reached over to the bag and pulled out her vibrator, turned it on, and pressed it to her clit. Her body bucked and she gasped loudly at its initial touch. Kyle chuckled a little, watching her add this additional layer of fun to their play.At first, she slowly circled the vibrator on her clit sending jolts of pleasure through her body while he continued his thrusts. Kyle then eased out of her and just watched the show for a bit, totally turned on by watching her please herself. He then took over, and dipped the vibrator into her willing opening, then pulled it out and dragged it along her labia and up to her clit, circled it around, then returned the journey back down to her entry. He repeated this a few times and Elizabeth moaned and squirmed in delight. He then drifted the vibrator up to her breasts, circling it on her nipples. The gentle buzz sent waves of pleasure through her chest, before he traveled it back down along her body and back into her tunnel. With the vibrator inside her, he then pressed his cock into her as well.“Oh my god,” she wailed at this fullness. As they both enjoyed the buzz of the vibration, Elizabeth was quickly approaching an orgasm. “This feels amazing,” she cried, “don't stop, please don't stop,” she begged through staggered breaths. And within moments, a powerful orgasm tore through her body. “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,” she said as she fell back to earth.Kyle was nearing his precipice too. He removed the vibrator from Elizabeth, shut it off and tossed it aside and continued powerfully thrusting into her. Elizabeth could tell from his breathing that he was getting close. She moved her right hand down and placed her pointer and middle finger near her opening and along the underside of his cock.There was something so sexy about feeling his manhood, slick with her moisture, as it plunged in and out of her. On each outward thrust, her fingers made contact with the sensitive spot under the head of his cock and he was loving that sensation. “Don't stop,” he pleaded with her. She obliged and only pressed harder and held her thumb along the topside of his cock too. Within seconds, he grunted “Ugh” as his cum shot through his shaft and exploded into her.“Oh my god, yes, fill me up,” she called out as his body shuddered with spurt after spurt into her. She squeezed and tightened her hold on his cock, milking him for every last drop until he eased his softening dick out of her, collapsing onto the bed next to her with a happy sigh.“I think we're going to need another shower,” she said with a laugh.“Uh, yeah, I think so,” he agreed.They eventually made their way to the shower, and thankfully, there was enough hot water for a quick rinse. After showering, Elizabeth dried her hair and then got dressed. She found Kyle already dressed and hanging out in the living room. Plopping down next to him on the couch, she asked “So, now what? Should we go get some dinner?”“Yeah, I'm kinda hungry.”“Yeah, me too. Let's do it.”They headed out into town and found a little cafe where they got a bite to eat. Elizabeth ordered a cocktail too and it was surprisingly strong. And being a lightweight, she was quickly buzzed. And buzzed Elizabeth equals giggly Elizabeth. Kyle made a remark to her as they were leaving the restaurant that started her giggles and she could barely stop laughing on their entire drive back to the cabin.They made a beeline straight for the hot tub, undressing right by the basement door and climbing into the tub. They kept off the overhead light and turned on the dimmer mood lighting of the hot tub instead. Maybe it was the cover of darkness. Maybe it was the alcohol in her system. Or maybe she was just insatiable, but still giggly and buzzed, Elizabeth was all over Kyle in a flash. Straddling his legs in the hot tub, she sat atop him, gyrating her hips and pressing her chest into his, making out with him like a horny teenager. Sinking down onto his erection, they fucked wildy for awhile with Elizabeth in Kyle's lap.“I fucking love having sex with you,” she told him. Kyle smiled a big grin in response and then passionately kissed her.He then pulled out and pressed Elizabeth towards the other side of the tub so he could enter her from behind. He thrust into her, while she held onto the side of the tub. She was a chorus of “Fucks”' and “Oh gods” and moans, her slightly-drunken self not taking notice of her volume level. Kyle reached his hand around and covered her mouth, muffling her moans and taking her under his control.After a few more thrusts, Kyle removed his cock from her tight tunnel and Elizabeth collapsed onto the seat beneath her with a heavy exhale and a giggle. He then moved in front of her, raising himself out of the water, aligning his cock with her mouth and she eagerly sucked him in. Bobbing her head back and forth, she squeezed her lips tightly around his cock. He grabbed hold of her head, holding her tight and began mouth fucking her. With a seductive moan, she looked up at him, as she hungrily accepted his throbbing cock between her lips. He pressed further into her mouth until he was reaching into her throat. Fighting her gag reflex, she took a deep breath and relaxed, tickling her tongue along the underside of his dick before he slowly eased out and repeated the motion. A few more thrusts and then he pulled out entirely and sank back into the water.“My ass was getting cold being out of the water,” he said with a chuckle. And that got her giggling again. They made out a little more before calling it a night in the hot tub and heading back inside.After taking a shower, Elizabeth slid into a pair of boyshorts, a t-shirt and threw on some knee high socks and joined Kyle who was in the living room. He had started a fire in the wood stove and they snuggled on the couch, enjoying the ambiance and warmth of the fire. They watched a movie and then headed off to bed, exhausted from long day of hiking, hot-tubbing and sex.The next morning they woke up and had another fiery round of morning sex before they begrudgingly got out of bed and started packing their things.“Ugh, this trip went by way too fast. I really don't want to go,” Elizabeth pouted as they were headed out of the cabin.“I know. Me neither. This was a lot of fun. And I'm really going to miss that hot tub too,” Kyle added with a frown.With a twinge of sadness, they pulled out of the driveway and headed off.They returned to Elizabeth's in the early afternoon and Kyle helped her unload all of her things. He was in no rush to get back in his truck and head home, so they had a snack and hung out for a bit, lounging on the couch, snuggling and talking. But, soon, the talking led to giggles and the snuggling led to kisses and, before long, the two were in full-on make out mode. Elizabeth eased off the couch and held her hand out to Kyle, urging him up.They made their way down the hall to her room and they began pulling each other's clothes off. Elizabeth plopped onto her back on the bed and the comfort of the sheets and blankets felt good on her naked skin. Kyle crawled onto the bed and pulled her into his arms, the warmth of their bodies pressed against one another only heating up their desire for one another. They hungrily resumed kissing, their tongues dancing together.Taking a moment to catch their breaths, they paused and just stared tenderly into one another's eyes. Kyle traced his fingers alongside Elizabeth's hair that had fallen onto her forehead and brushed it back behind her ear. Elizabeth bit her bottom lip at this tender touch from him before releasing a tiny moan and a breathy sigh. She brought her hand down alongside his face and met her lips to his again in a kiss that was more romantic than ravenous. The desire between them was palpable and practically heated up the room.Laying on their sides, Elizabeth reached her hand down to him, wrapping her soft fingers around his erection. She began to slide his cock along her lower lips, allowing the head to just barely dip into her, before dragging it along her labia, covering it in her body's lubrication. With their lips just millimeters apart, they shared breaths and longing looks in heated anticipation.She adjusted her hips and guided his cock into her and they both let out a deep sigh as he entered her warm, wet tunnel. Together, they just held still for a moment, enjoying the simplicity of their bodies connected this way. Their lips came together in a blend of kisses, sighs, and moans. Ever so slowly, Kyle began thrusting in and out of her, easing his cock almost entirely out before plunging back in. She let out a little “Um” each time he pressed back into her.Still on their sides, Kyle eased back a little and they readjusted. Kyle pulled Elizabeth's lower leg up and over his shoulder and guided her upper leg between his legs, allowing him even deeper access into her pussy. Their eyes met and their breathing synchronized creating a coordinated rhythm and even deeper intimate connection.With her eyes still locked on his, Elizabeth reached her hand down and began making gentle circles on her clit. Her fingers then drifted downward, stealing some moisture from her pussy and then back up to her nub while Kyle continued plunging his cock in and out in a steady rhythm. Elizabeth then moved her hand down to his penis, encircling her thumb and pointer finger around the base of his shaft and pressing into the underside of his cock. Kyle's movements became more rapid, his inhalations became deeper and louder and she could tell he was teetering on the edge as she continued running her fingers along his shaft with each thrust.“Fill me up with your cum,” she whispered to him, staring lustily in his eyes before meeting her lips to his, with a hungry desire.Hearing her impassioned plea was all it took to take him over the edge. “Ugh,” Kyle uttered, grunting with each thrust and release of his cum into Elizabeth.“Yes, yes,” she breathlessly said, loving it when he came inside her.“Oh god,” he let out with a deep and contented sigh as a final string of his cum shot into her and his body shuddered.They looked to one another and shared a smile before bringing their lips back together for a sensual kiss. Pulling away, they both let out a simultaneous sigh as Kyle released from Elizabeth.“That was, uh; wow,” she said to him, struggling to find the words. Kyle, also tongue tied, simply nodded and smiled in agreement and leaned in to give her a loving kiss.Maybe it was the culmination of their past few days together or just a natural evolution of their relationship, but lying there in the comfort of each other's arms, they both felt that what they'd just experienced had felt special, deeper, and more connected. And it felt like a fitting end to their mountain cabin getaway.By ElizabethSam for Literotica

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Kimberley: Welcome, everybody. This is a very exciting episode. I know I'm going to learn so much. Today, we have Caitlin Pinciotti and Shala Nicely, and we're talking about when OCD and PTSD collide and intertwine and how that plays out. This is actually a topic I think we need to talk about more. Welcome, Caitlin, and welcome, Shala. Caitlin: Thank you. Shala: Thanks. Kimberley: Okay. Let's first do a little introduction. Caitlin, would you like to go first introducing yourself? Caitlin: Sure thing. I'm Caitlin Pinciotti. I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. I also serve as a co-chair for the IOCDF Trauma and PTSD and OCD SIG. If people are interested in that special interest group as well, that's something that's available and up and running now. Most of my research specifically focuses on OCD, trauma, and PTSD, and particularly the overlap of these things. That's been sort of my focus for the last several years. I'm excited to be here and talk more about this topic. Kimberley: Thank you. You're doing amazing work. I've loved being a part of just watching all of this great research that you're doing. Shala, would you like to introduce yourself? Shala: Yes. I'm Shala Nicely. I am a licensed professional counselor, and I specialize in the treatment of OCD and related disorders. I am the author of Is Fred in the Refrigerator?: Taming OCD and Reclaiming My Life, which is my story, and then co-author with Jon Hershfield of Everyday Mindfulness for OCD: Tips, Tricks, and Skills for Living Joyfully. I also produce the Shoulders Back! newsletter. It has tips and resources for taming OCD. Kimberley: Shoulders Back! was actually the inspiration for this episode. Shala, you recently wrote an article about post-traumatic OCD or how PTSD and OCD collide. Can you tell us about your story, particularly going back to, I think you mentioned, May 2020, and what brought you to write that article? Shala: Sure, and thank you very much for having Caitlin and me on today because I really appreciate the opportunity to talk about this and to get more information out in the world about this intertwined combination of PTSD and OCD. In May of 2020, I moved to a new house, the house that I'm in now. Of course, we had just started the pandemic, and so everybody was working at home, including me. The house that I moved into was in a brand new neighborhood. While the houses on this side of me were completed, the houses behind me and on that side were not completed. I didn't think anything of that when I moved in. But what I moved into was a situation where I was in a construction zone all the time. I was working at home, so there was no escape from it. One day I was walking behind my house, where most of the houses were in the process of being built and there were no sidewalks. As I was walking down the street, I saw, down at the end of the street, a big forklift come down the street where I was walking with my two little dogs backwards at a really high rate of speed, and the forklift driver seemed to be looking that way, and he was going that way. It happened so fast because he was going so quickly that all of a sudden I realized he was going to hit us, my dogs and me, and there was no place for us to go because we were on the road because there was nowhere else for us to be. I screamed bloody murder, and he heard me. I mean, that's how loud I screamed, and he stopped. That was not all that pleasant. I was upset. He was not happy. But we moved on. But my brain didn't move on.  After that incident, what I noticed was I was becoming really hypervigilant in my own house and finding the construction equipment. If I go outside, I tense up just knowing that construction equipment is there. Over time, my sleep started becoming disturbed. I started to have flashbacks and what I call flash-forwards, where I would think about all these horrible things that could happen to me that hadn't happened to me yet but could. I'd get lost in these violent fantasies of what might happen and what I need to do to prevent that.  I realized that I seemed to be developing symptoms of PTSD. This is where being a therapist was actually quite helpful because I pulled the DSM open one night and I started going through symptoms of PTSD. I'm like, “Oh my gosh, I think I have PTSD.”  I think what happened, because having a forklift driver almost hit you, doesn't seem like that could possibly cause PTSD. But if you look at my history, I think that created a link in my brain to an accident I was in when I was four where I did almost die, which is when my mom and I were standing on the side of a road, about to cross. We were going to go between two parked cars. My mom and I stepped between two parked cars, and there was a man driving down the road who was legally blind, and he mistook the line of parked cars where we were standing as moving traffic. He plowed into the end of all the parked cars, which of course made them accordion in, and my mom and I were in the middle of that. I was very seriously injured and probably almost died. My mom was, too. Several months in the hospital, all of that.  Of course, at that point—that was 1975—there was no PTSD, because I think— Caitlin, you can correct me—it didn't become a diagnosis until 1980. I have had symptoms—small, low-level symptoms of PTSD probably on and off most of my life, but so low-level, not diagnosable, and not really causing any sort of problems. But I think what happened in my head was that when that forklift almost hit me, it made my brain think, “Oh my gosh, we're in that situation again,” because the forklift was huge. It was the same scale to me as an adult as that car that I was crushed between was when I was four. I think my brain just got confused. Because I was stuck with this construction equipment all day long and I didn't get any break from it, it just made my brain think more and more and more, “Boy, we are really in danger.” Our lives are basically threatened all the time.  That began my journey of figuring out what was going on with me and then also trying to understand why my OCD seemed to be getting worse and jumping in to help because I seemed to get all these compulsions that were designed to keep me safe from this construction equipment. It created a process where I was trying to figure out, "What is this? I've got both PTSD now, I've got OCD flaring up, how do I deal with this? What do I do?" The reason why I wanted to write the article for Shoulders Back! and why I asked Caitlin to write it with me was because there just isn't a lot of information out there about this combination where people have PTSD or some sort of trauma, and then the OCD jumps in to help. Now you've got a combination of disorders where you've got trauma or PTSD and OCD, and they're merging together to try to protect you. That's what they think they're doing. They're trying to help you stay safe, but really, what they're doing is they're making your life smaller and smaller and smaller.  I wanted to write this article for Shoulders Back! to let people know about my experience so that other people going through this aren't alone. I wanted to ask Caitlin to write it with me because I wanted an expert in this to talk about what it is, how we treat it, what hope do we have for people who are experiencing this going forward. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OCD AND PTSD (AND POST-TRAUMATIC OCD)  Kimberley: Thank you for sharing that. I do encourage people; I'll link in the show notes if they want to go and read the article as well. Caitlin, from a clinical perspective, what was going on for Shala? Can you break down the differences between OCD and PTSD and what's happening to her? Caitlin: Sure. First, I want to start by thanking Shala again for sharing that story. I know you and I talked about this one-on-one, but I think really sharing personal stories like that obviously involves a lot of courage and vulnerability. It's just so helpful for people to hear examples and to really resonate with, “Wow, maybe I'm not so different or so alone. I thought I was the only one who had experiences like this.” I just want to publicly thank you again for writing that blog and being willing to share these really horrible experiences that you had.  In terms of how we would look at this clinically, it's not uncommon for people to, like Shala described, experience trauma and have these low-level symptoms for a while that don't really emerge or don't really reach the threshold of being diagnosable. This can happen, for example, with veterans who return home from war, and it might not be until decades later that they have some sort of significant life event or change. Maybe they've retired, or they're experiencing more stress, or maybe, like Shala, they're experiencing another trauma, and it just brings everything up. This kind of delayed onset of PTSD is, for sure, not abnormal.  In this case, it sounds like, just like Shala described, that her OCD really latched onto the trauma, that she had these experiences that reinforced each other. Right now, I've had two experiences where being around moving vehicles has been really dangerous for me. Just like you said, I think you did such a beautiful job of saying that the OCD and PTSD colluded in a way to keep you “safe.” That's the function of it. But of course, we know that those things go to the extreme and can make our lives very small and very distressing.  What Shala described about using these compulsions to try to prevent future trauma is something that we see a lot in people who have comorbid OCD and PTSD. We're doing some research now on the different ways that OCD and trauma can intersect. And that's something that keeps coming up as people say, “I engaged in these compulsions as a way to try to prevent the trauma from happening to me again or happening to someone else. Or maybe my compulsions gave me a sense of control, predictability, or certainty about something related to the trauma.” This kind of presentation of OCD sort of functioning as protection against trauma or coping with past trauma as well is really common. STATISTICS OF OCD AND PTSD Kimberley: Would you share a little bit about the statistics between OCD and PTSD and the overlap? Caitlin: Absolutely. I'm excited to share this too, because so much of this work is so recent, and I'm hopeful that it's really going to transform the way that we see the relationships between OCD and PTSD. We know that around 60% of people who have comorbid OCD and PTSD tend to have an experience where PTSD comes first or at the same time, and the OCD comes later. This is sort of that post-traumatic OCD presentation that we're talking about and that Shala talked about in her article.  For folks who have this presentation where the PTSD comes first and then the OCD comes along afterwards, unfortunately, we see that those folks tend to have more severe obsessions, more severe compulsions. They're more likely to struggle with suicidality or to have comorbid agoraphobia or panic disorders. Generally speaking, we see a more severe presentation when the OCD comes after the PTSD and trauma, which is likely indicative of what we're discussing, which is that when the OCD develops as a way to cope with trauma, it takes on a mind of its own and can be really severe because it's serving multiple functions in that way. What we've been finding in our recent research—and if folks want to participate, the study will still be active for the next month; we're going to end it at the end of the year, the OCD and Trauma Overlap Study—what we're finding is that of the folks who've participated in the study, 85% of them feel like there's some sort of overlap between their OCD and trauma. Of course, there are lots of different ways that OCD and trauma can overlap.  I published a paper previously where we found that about 45% of people with severe OCD in a residential program felt that a traumatic or stressful event was the direct cause of their OCD on setting. But beyond that, we know that OCD and trauma can intersect in terms of the content of obsessions, the function of compulsions, as we've been talking about here, core fears. Some folks describe this, and Shala described this to this, like cyclical relationship where when one thing gets triggered, the other thing gets triggered too.  This is really where a lot of the research is focusing on now, is how do these things intersect, how often do they intersect, and what does that really look like for people? Kimberley: Thanks. I found in my practice, for people who have had a traumatic event, as exactly what happened to Shala, and I actually would love for both of you maybe to give some other examples of how this looks for people and how it may be experienced, is let's say the person that was involved in the traumatic event or that place that the traumatic event was recent that recently was revisited just like Shala. Some of them go to doing safety behaviors around that person, place, or event, or they might just notice an uptick in their compulsions that may have completely nothing to do with that. Shala, can you explain a little bit about how you differentiated between what are PTSD symptoms versus OCD, or do you consider them very, very similar? Can you give some insight into that? SYMPTOMS OF OCD & PTSD  Shala: Sure. I'll give some examples of the symptoms of OCD that developed after this PTSD developed, but it's all post-traumatic OCDs. I consider it to be different from PTSD, but it is merged with PTSD because it's only there because the PTSD is there.  For instance, I developed a lot of checking behaviors around the doors to my house—staring, touching, not able to just look once before I go to bed, had to be positively sure the doors were locked, which, as somebody who does this for a living, who helps people stop doing these compulsions, created a decent amount of shame for me too, as I'm doing these compulsions and saying, “Why am I not taking my own advice here? Why am I getting stuck doing this?”  But my OCD thought that the construction equipment was outside; we're inside. We need to make sure it stays outside. The only way we do that is to make sure the door stays locked, which is ridiculous. It's not as if a forklift is going to drive through my front door. As typical with OCD, the compulsions don't make a lot of sense, but there's a loose link there. Another compulsion that I realized after a time was probably linked with PTSD is my people-pleasing, which I've always struggled with. In fact, Kimberley, you and I have done another podcast about people-pleasing, something I've worked really hard on over the years, but it really accelerated after this. I eventually figured out that that was a compulsion to keep people liking me so that they wouldn't attack me. That can be an OCD compulsion all by itself, but it was functioning to help the PTSD.  Those would be two examples of compulsions that could be OCD compulsions on their own, but they would not have been there had the PTSD not been there. Kimberley: Caitlin, do you want to add anything about that from symptoms or how it might look and be experienced? Caitlin: Sure, yeah. I think it's spot on that there's this element of separation that we can piece apart. This feels a little bit more like OCD; this feels a little bit more like PTSD, but ultimately they're the same thing, or it's the same behavior.  In my work, I usually try to, where I can, piece things apart clinically so that we can figure out what we should do with this particular response that you're having. When it comes to differentiating compulsions, OCD compulsions and PTSD safety behaviors, we can look towards both the presentation of the behavior as well as the function of it.  In terms of presentation, I mean, we all know what compulsions can look like. They can be very rigid. There can be a set of rules that they have to be completed with. They're often characterized by a lot of doubting, like in Shala's case, the checking that, “Well, okay, I checked, but I'm not actually sure, so let me check one more time.” Whereas in PTSD, although it's possible for that to happen, those safety behaviors, usually, it's a little bit easier to disengage from. Once I feel like I've established a sense of safety, then I feel like I can disengage from that. There doesn't tend to be kind of that like rigidity and a set of rules or magical thinking that comes along with an OCD compulsion.  In terms of the function, and this is where it gets a little bit murky with post-traumatic OCD, broadly speaking, the function of PTSD safety behaviors is to try to prevent trauma from occurring again in the future. Whereas OCD compulsions, generally speaking, are a way to obtain certainty about something or prevent some sort of feared catastrophe related to someone's obsession. But of course, when the OCD is functioning along with the PTSD to cope with trauma, to prevent future trauma, that gets a little bit murkier.  In my work, like I said, I try to piece apart, are there elements of this that we can try to resist from more of an ERP OCD standpoint? If there's a set of rules or a specific way that you're checking the door, maybe we can work on reducing some of that while still having that PTSD perspective of being a little bit more lenient about weaning off safety behaviors over time. TREATMENT FOR OCD AND PTSD Kimberley: It's a perfect segue into us talking about the treatment here. Caitlin, could you maybe share the treatment options for these conditions, specifically post-traumatic OCD, but maybe in general, all three? Caitlin: Absolutely. The APA, a few years back, reviewed all the available literature on PTSD treatments, and they created this hierarchy of the treatments that have the most evidence base and went down from there. From their review of all the research that's been done, there were four treatments that emerged as being the most effective for PTSD. That would be broadly cognitive behavioral therapy and cognitive therapy. But then there are two treatments that have been specifically created to target PTSD, and that would be prolonged exposure or PE, and cognitive processing therapy or CBT. These all fall under the umbrella of CBT treatments, but they're just a little bit more specific in their approach. And then, of course, we know of ACT and EMDR and these other treatments that folks use as well. Those fall in the second tier, where there's a lot of evidence that those work for folks as well, but that top tier has the most evidence.  These treatments can be used in combination with OCD treatments like ERP. There are different ways that folks can combine them. They can do full protocols of both. They could borrow aspects of some treatments, or they could choose to focus really on if there's a very clear primary diagnosis to treat that one first before moving on to the secondary diagnosis. TREATMENT EXAMPLES FOR POST-TRAUMATIC OCD Kimberley: Amazing. Shala, if you're comfortable, can you give some examples of what treatment looked like for you and what that was like for you both having OCD and PTOCD?  Shala: Yes, and I think to set the ground for why the combined treatment working on the PTSD and the OCD together can be so important, a couple of features of how all this was presenting for me was the shift in the focus of the uncertainty. With OCD, it's all about an intolerance of uncertainty and not knowing whether these what-ifs that OCD is getting stuck on are true or going to happen. But what I noticed when I developed PTSD and then the OCD came in to help was that the focus of the uncertainty shifted to it's not what if it's going to happen. The only what-if is when it was going to happen because something bad happening became a given.  The uncertainty shifted to only when and where that bad thing was going to happen, which meant that I had lower insight. I've always had pretty good insight into my OCD, even before I got treatment. Many people with OCD too, we know what we're doing doesn't make any sense; we just can't stop doing it. With this combined presentation, there was a part of me that was saying, “Yeah, I really do need to be staring at the door. This is really important to make sure I keep that construction equipment out.” That lowered insight is a feature of this combined presentation that I think makes the type of treatment that we do more important, because we want to address both of the drivers, both the PTSD and the OCD. The treatment that I did was in a staged process. First, I had to find a treatment provider, and Caitlin has a wonderful list of evidence-based treatment providers who can provide treatment for both on her website, which is great. I found somebody actually who ended up being on Caitlin's list and worked with that person, and she wanted to start out doing prolonged exposure, which I pushed back on a little bit. Sometimes when you're a therapist and you're being the client, it's hard not to get in the other person's chair. But I pushed back on that because I said, “Well, I don't think I need to do prolonged exposure on the original accident,” because that's what she was suggesting we do, the accident when I was four. I said, “Because I wrote a book, Is Fred in the Refrigerator? and the very first chapter is the accident,” and I talked all about the accident. She explained, “That's a little bit different than the way we would do it in prolonged exposure.” What's telling, I think, is that when I worked on the audiobook version of Fred—I was doing the narration, I was in a studio, and I had an engineer and a director; they were on one side of the glass, I'm on the other side of the glass—I had a really hard time getting through that first chapter of the book because I kept breaking down. They'd have to stop everything, and I had to get myself together, and we had to start again, and that happened over and over and over again.  Even though I had relived, so to speak, this story on paper, I guess that was the problem. I was still reliving it. That's probably the right word. Prolonged exposure is what I needed to do because I needed to be able to be in the presence of that story and have it be a story in the past and not something that I was experiencing right then.  I started with prolonged exposure. After I did that, I moved on to cognitive processing therapy because I had a lot of distorted beliefs around life and the trauma that we call “stuck points” in cognitive processing therapy that I needed to work through. There were a good 20 or so stuck-point beliefs. “If I don't treat people perfectly nicely, they're going to attack me somehow.” Things that could be related directly to the compulsions, but also just things like, “The world is dangerous. If I'm not vigilant all the time, something bad is going to happen to me.” I had to work on reframing all of those because I was living my life based on those beliefs, which was keeping the trauma going.  I recreated a new set of beliefs and then brought exposure in to work on doing exposures that helped me act as if those new beliefs were the right way to live. If my stuck point is I need to be hypervigilant because of the way something bad is going to happen to me, and I'm walking around like this, which was not an exaggeration of really how I was living my life when this was all happening—if I'm living like that, if I'm acting in a hypervigilant way, I am reinforcing these beliefs. I need to go do exposures where I can walk by a dump truck without all the hypervigilance to let all that tension go, walk by it, realize what I've learned, and walk by it again.  It was a combination of all these and making sure that I was doing these exposures, both to stop the compulsions I was doing, like the door checking, but also to start living in a different way so that I wasn't in my approach to life, reinforcing the fact that my PTSD thought the world was dangerous.  I also incorporated some DBT (dialectical behavior therapy) because what I found with this combination was I was experiencing a lot more intense emotions than I'd really ever experienced in having OCD by itself. With OCD, it was mostly just out-of-this-world anxiety, but with the combination of PTSD and OCD, there were a lot more emotional swings of all sorts of different kinds that I needed to learn and had to deal with. Part of that too was just learning how to be in the presence of these PTSD symptoms, which are very physiological. Not like OCD symptoms aren't, but they tend to be somewhat more extreme, almost panicky-like feelings. When you're in the flashbacks or flash forwards, you can feel dissociated, and you're numbing out and all of that. I'm learning to be in the presence of those symptoms without reacting negatively to them, because if I'm having some sort of feelings of hypervigilance that are coming because I'm near a piece of construction equipment and I haven't practiced my ERP (Expsoure & Response Prevention) for a while, if I react negatively and say, “Oh my gosh, I shouldn't be having these symptoms. I've done my therapy. I shouldn't be having these feelings right now,” it's just going to make it worse. Really, a lot of this work on the emotional side was learning how to just be with the feelings. If I have symptoms, because they happen every now and then—if I have symptoms, then I'm accepting them. I'm not making them worse by a negative reaction to the reaction my PTSD is having.  That was a lot of the tail end of the work, was learning how to be okay with the fact that sometimes you're going to have some PTSD symptoms, and that's okay. But overreacting to them is going to make it worse.  Kimberley: Thank you so much for sharing that. I just want to maybe clarify for those who are listening. You talked about CPT, you talked about DBT, and you also talked about prolonged exposure. In the prolonged exposure, you were exposing yourself to the dump truck? Is that correct? Shala: In the prolonged exposure, I was doing two different things. One is the story of the accident that I was in. Going back to that accident that I thought I had fully habituated to through writing my book and doing all that, I had to learn how to be in the presence of that story without reliving it while seeing it as something that happened to me, but it's not happening to me right now. That was the imaginal part of the prolonged exposure.  This is where the overlap between the disorders and the treatment can get confusing of what is part of what. You can do the in vivo exposure part of prolonged exposure. Those can also look a lot like just ERP for OCD, where we're going and we're standing beside a dump truck and dropping the hypervigilant safety behaviors because we need to be able to do that to prove to our brain we can tolerate being in this environment. It isn't a dangerous environment to stand by a jump truck. It's not what happened when I was four. Those are the two parts that we're looking at there—the imaginal exposure, which is the story, and then we've got the in vivo exposures, which are going back and being in the presence of triggers, and also from an OCD perspective without compulsive safety behaviors. Kimberley: Amazing. What I would clarify, but please any of you jump in just for the listeners, if this is all new to you, what we're not saying is, let's say if there was someone who was abusive to you as a child, that you would then expose yourself to them for the sake of getting better from your PTSD. I think the decisions you made on what to expose yourself were done with a therapist, Shala? They helped you make those decisions based on what was helpful and effective for you? Do either of you want to speak to what we do and what we don't expose ourselves to in prolonged exposure? Caitlin: Yeah. I'm glad that you're clarifying that too, because this is a big part of PE that is actually a little bit different from ERP. When somebody has experienced trauma, when they have PTSD, their internal alarm system just goes haywire. Just like in Shala's example, anything that serves as a reminder or a trigger of the trauma, the brain just automatically interprets as this thing is dangerous; I have to get away from it.  In PE, a lot of what we're doing is helping people to recalibrate that internal alarm system so that they can better learn or relearn safe versus actual threat. When you're developing a hierarchy with someone in PE, you might have very explicit conversations about how safe is this exposure really, because we never want to put someone in a situation where they would be unsafe, such as, like you described, interacting with an abuser.  In ERP, we'd probably be less likely to go through the exposures and say, “This one's actually safe; I want you to do it,” because so much of the treatment is about tolerating uncertainty about feared outcomes. But in PE, we might have these explicit conversations. “Do other people you know do this activity or go to this place in town?” There are probably construction sites that wouldn't be safe for Shala to go to. They'd be objectively dangerous, and we'd never have her go and do things that would put her in harm's way. Kimberley: Thank you. I just wanted to clarify on that, particularly for folks who are hearing this for the first time. I'm so grateful that we're having this conversation again. I think it's going to be so eye-opening for people. Caitlin, can you share any final words for the listeners? What resources would you encourage them to listen to? Is there anything that you feel we missed in our conversation today for the listeners? Caitlin: I think, generally, I like to always leave on a note of hope. Again, I'm so grateful that Shala is here and gets to describe her experience with such vulnerability because it gives hope that you can hear about someone who was at their worst, and maybe things felt hopeless in that moment. But she was able to access the help that she needed and use the tools that she had from her own training too, which helped, and really move through this.  There isn't sort of a final point where it's like, “Okay, cool, I'm done. The trauma is never going to bother me again.” But it doesn't have to have that grip on your life any longer, and you don't need to rely on OCD to keep you safe from trauma.  There are treatments out there that work. Like it was mentioned, I have a directory of OCD and PTSD treatment providers available on my website, which is www.cmpinciotti.com that folks can access if they're looking for a therapist. If you're a therapist listening and you believe that you belong in this directory, there's a way to reach out to me through the website.  I'd also say too that if folks are willing and interested, participating in the research that's happening right now really helps us to understand OCD and PTSD better so that we can better support people. If you're interested in participating in the OCD and trauma study that I mentioned, you can email me at OCDTraumaStudy@bcm.edu. I also have another study that's more recent that will help to answer the question of how many people with OCD have experienced trauma and what are those more commonly endorsed ways that people feel that OCD and trauma intersect for them. That one's ultra-brief. It's a 10-minute really quick survey, NationalOCDSurvey@bcm.edu and I'm happy to share that anonymous link with you as well/ Kimberley: Thank you. Thank you so much. Shala, can you share any final words about your experience or what you want the listeners to hear? Shala: One thing I'd like to share is a mistake that I made as part of my recovery that I would love for other people not to make. I'd like to talk a little bit about that, because I think it could be helpful. The mistake that I made in trying to be a good client, a good therapy client, is I was micro-monitoring my recovery. “How many PTSD symptoms am I having? Well, I'm still having symptoms.” I woke up in the middle of the night in a panic, or I had a bad dream, or I had a flash forward. “Why am I having this? I must not be doing things right.” And then I took it a step further and said, “It would be great if I could track the physiological markers of my PTSD so I can make sure I'm keeping them under control.” I got a piece of tracking technology that enabled me to track heart rate and heart rate variability and sleep and all this stuff. At first, it was okay, but then the technology that I was using changed their algorithm, and all of a sudden my stats weren't good anymore, and I started freaking out. “Oh my gosh, my sleep is bad. My atrophy is going down. This is bad. What am I doing?” I was trying with the best of intentions to quantify, make sure I'm doing things right, focus on recovery. But what I was doing was focusing on the remaining symptoms that were there, and I was making them worse.  What I have learned is that eventually, things got so bad—in fact, with my sleep—that I got so frustrated with the tracking technology. I said, “I'm not wearing it anymore.” That's one of the things that helped me realize what I was doing. When I stopped tracking my sleep, when I let go of all of this and said, “You know what? I'm going to have symptoms,” things got better.  I would encourage people not to overthink their recovery, not to be in their heads and wake up in the morning and ask, “How much PTSD am I having? How much OCD am I having? If I could just get rid of these last little symptoms, life would be great,” because that's just going to keep everything going.  I'll say this year, two has been a challenging one for me. I've been involved in three car accidents this year; none of them my fault. One of my neighbors, whom I don't know, called the police on me, thinking I was breaking into my own house, which meant that a whole army of police officers ended up at my house at nine o'clock at night. That's four pretty hard trauma triggers for me in 2023.  Those kinds of things are going to happen to all of us every now and then. I had a lot of symptoms. I had a lot of PTSD symptoms and a lot of OCD symptoms in the wake of those events, and that's okay. It's not that I want them to be there, but that's just my brain reacting. That's my brain trying to come to terms with what happened and how safe we are and trying to get back to a level playing field.  I think it's really important for anybody else out there who's suffering from one or the other, or both of these disorders to recognize we're going to have symptoms sometimes. Just like with OCD, you're going to have symptoms sometimes. It's okay. It's the pushing away. It's the rejecting of the symptoms. It's the shaming yourself for having the symptoms that causes the symptoms to get worse.  Really, there is an element of self-compassion for OCD here. I like having bracelets to remind me. This is the self-compassion bracelet that I've had for years that I wear. By the way, this is not the tracking technology. I'm not using tracking technology anymore. But remembering self-compassion and telling yourself, “I'm having symptoms right now, and this is really hard. I'm anxious; I feel a little bit hypervigilant, but this is part of recovery from PTOCD. Most people with PTOCD experience this at some point. So I'm going to give myself a break, give myself permission to feel what I'm feeling, recognize how much progress I've made, and, when I feel ready, do some of my therapy homework to help me move past this, but in a nonhypervigilant, nonmicro monitoring way.” As I have dropped down into acceptance of these symptoms, my symptoms have gotten a lot better. I think that's a really important takeaway. Yes, we want to work hard in our therapy, yes, we want to do the homework, but we also want to work on accepting because, in the acceptance, we learn that having these symptoms sometimes is just a part of life, and it's okay.  I would echo what Caitlin said in that you can have a ton of hope if you have these disorders, in that we have good treatment. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer than working on either one or the other, but that makes sense because you're working on two. But we have good treatment, and you can get back to living a joyful life.  Always have hope and don't give up, because sometimes it can be a long road, especially when you have a combined presentation. But you can tame both of these disorders and reclaim your life. Kimberle: You guys are so good. I'm so grateful we got to do this. I feel like it's such an important conversation, and both of you bring such wonderful expertise and lived experience. I'm so grateful. Thank you both for coming on and talking about this with me today. I'm so grateful. Shala: Thank you for having us. Caitlin: Yes, thank you. This was wonderful. Kimberley: Thank you so much, guys. RESOURCES:  The two studies CAITLIN referenced are: OCD/Trauma Overlap Study: An anonymous online survey for any adult who has ever experienced trauma, and can be accessed at https://bcmpsych.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0j4ULJv3DxUaKtE or by emailing OCDTraumaStudy@bcm.edu National OCD Survey: An anonymous 10-minute online survey for any U.S. adult who has ever had OCD, and can be accessed at https://bcmpsych.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9LdbaR2yrj0oV7g or by emailing NationalOCDSurvey@bcm.edu

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