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This week, we celebrate the music of one of the most important bands of the '90s and beyond, Radiohead. Since the release of their first EP Drill over 32 years ago (!!), Radiohead continued to innovate and reinvent their music, challenging themselves and their fans. From their post-grunge anthem "Creep" (1992) to Britpop-era tour de force The Bends (1995) to the ambitious masterpiece OK Computer (1997) to the millennial sounds of Kid A (2000) to latter day masterpieces like In Rainbows (2007), the Oxford, England Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have inspired two generations of forward thinking musicians. Among those musicians are our Third Lads, Heather Dickson and Patrick Ahern* from the avant-garde pop duo Slender Dan. (*NOT "Dan," as Brett erroneously called him before the recording started.) Slender Dan debuted its first EP on KEXP in March of 2021. Since then, the band has released a full-length album, GESTALT, as well as several EPs and singles. As longtime musicians in the Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, and now Nashville music scenes, the members of Slender Dan have come together to create a sound that can best be described as some kind of Thom Yorke/Billie Eilish/Miike Snow/Aphex Twin lovechild. In what could be one of the more unhinged O3L episodes, "Safe Gregg" and "7-Inch Brett" naturally chat with Heather and Patrick about the lasting influence of Radiohead, but also about two-man luges, current pop girls, Kansas, Yo Yo Ma, Napoleon Dynamite, Chumbawamba, puppies, ODing on energy drinks, Electric Company parties, and the distinct possibility that Heather MAY actually be Brett's daughter. Plus, we also shout out a recommended podcast by friend of the show Dave Gebroe: Discograffiti. Extensive and meticulously researched deep dives into some of your favorite artists catalogues, Discograffiti is a music obsessive's dream. Check it out wherever you get podcasts! Proud members of the Pantheon Podcasts family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on High Society Radio, Chris Faga & Chris Stanley are joined by comedian Andrew Packer to discuss the concept of his "Man News" talk show, having a bodybuilder connect with his feelings, his stance on Canada's healthcare recommendations, Toronto's general feelings on Rob Ford and more plus Liver King really went off the rails following looking into Ayeuascha trip, why becoming Christian has become the "break in case of emergency" scenario for celebrities, Andrew just getting into anime and the boys provide him with a crash course, a call from the slammed phone lines about ODing and so much more!Support Our Sponsors!https://monthlyknifeclub.com/ - Use promo code: GAS for 10% off your first month!https://yodelta.com/ - Use promo code GAS for 25% off your order!https://yokratom.com/ - Check out Yo Kratom (the home of the $60 kilo) for all your kratom needs!High Society Radio is 2 native New Yorkers who started from the bottom and didn't raise up much. That's not the point, if you enjoy a sideways view on technology, current events, or just an in depth analysis of action movies from 2006 this is the show for you.Chris Stanley is the on-air producer for Bennington on Sirius XM.A Twitter Chris Really Likes: https://x.com/stanman42069Chris from Brooklyn is a lifelong street urchin, a former head chef and current retiree.Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisFromBklynInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisfrombklynFollow Andrew PackerTwitter: https://x.com/andpackerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/andpackerYouTube: @andpackerEngineer: JorgeEditor: TannerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilkinky69/Executive Producer: Mike HarringtonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themharrington/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMHarringtonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Dopey!  We are joined by 'Against All Odds' author, and 'Roll Call with Chappy' podcaster - Peter 'Chappy' Meyerhoff! We leave no stone unturned in this junky prison opus. Chappy gives us the good bad and the ugly from early incarceration to 12 long years in prison where he was the shot caller on multiple prison yards. His story goes nuts when he gets involved with a female corrections officer who smuggles him heroin which he deals then becomes hopelessly addicted to. I'm not gonna give it all away in this write up! But it's seriously beautiful and Chappy cries! PLUS We commemorate the loss of Brian 'Hotwheelz' Connelly and play his first voicemail - plus poetic emails extra voicemails and much much more on this new prison flavored episode of that good old Dopey Show! Summary: Peter 'Chappy' Meyerhoff, a former prisoner and recovering addict, shares his story and mission to help others in this episode of Dopey. He discusses his experiences in prison, his near-death fentanyl overdose, and his journey to sobriety. Chappie opens up about the challenges of aligning his past prison persona with his current role as a mentor and advocate for prisoners. He also reflects on the impact of becoming a father and the struggles he faces in navigating his new life. Despite the difficulties, Chappie remains committed to inspiring and supporting others in their recovery journeys. David Manheim discusses his strained relationship with his father and the decision to cut ties with him. He shares his experience of growing up in a dysfunctional family and the resentment he feels towards his father. David also opens up about his journey into drug addiction, starting from alcohol and weed at a young age and eventually progressing to harder drugs like crystal meth and heroin. He talks about his time in prison and the power dynamics and politics that exist within the prison system. David reflects on his past actions and the impact they have had on his life. Chappie shares his story of addiction, prison, and recovery. He talks about his early experiences with drugs and how he quickly became addicted. He describes his time in prison, including the challenges of withdrawal and the prison politics he had to navigate. Chappie also discusses his relapse after his first release from prison and the near-death experience that led him to finally get sober. He emphasizes the importance of staying sober and helping others, and how his perspective on God and spirituality has evolved throughout his journey. Keywordsprison, addiction, recovery, sobriety, near-death overdose, fatherhood, vulnerability, father-son relationship, drug addiction, prison, power dynamics, politics, addiction, prison, recovery, drugs, withdrawal, prison politics, relapse, sobriety, God, spirituality Takeaways Peter Chappie Meyerhoff shares his experiences as a former prisoner and recovering addict He discusses the challenges of aligning his past prison persona with his current role as a mentor and advocate for prisoners Chappie reflects on the impact of becoming a father and the struggles he faces in navigating his new life Despite the difficulties, Chappie remains committed to inspiring and supporting others in their recovery journeys David's strained relationship with his father led him to cut ties with him He reflects on his journey into drug addiction, starting from alcohol and weed and eventually progressing to harder drugs David shares his experiences in prison and the power dynamics and politics that exist within the system He reflects on his past actions and the impact they have had on his life Addiction can quickly take hold and lead to a life of crime and incarceration. Prison can be a challenging environment, but it can also provide an opportunity for self-reflection and growth. Relapse is a common part of the recovery process, but it's important to learn from it and make a commitment to sobriety. Spirituality and a belief in a higher power can play a role in recovery, even for those who were initially skeptical. Helping others and staying connected to a supportive community are crucial for maintaining long-term sobriety. Titles Aligning Past and Present: Chappie's Transformation Navigating the Challenges of Recovery and Fatherhood Journey into Drug Addiction Power Dynamics and Politics in Prison From Addiction to Incarceration: Chappie's Story Navigating Prison Politics: Chappie's Experience Sound Bites "I've been struggling in life lately, man, like... I have really, really bad imposter syndrome now." "In recovery, vulnerability is strength." "It's like real life stuff. And that's what me and my dad's relationship is still... tough, man." "I don't need his shitty advice and to be honest I think he's fucking grumpy as shit" "I'm just done with this relationship, you know?" "He's whipped to her and she does whatever, he does whatever the hell she says and she runs shit" "I felt like stuff is like just finally going to go my way when I got out" "I had this argument with my mom the other day, because was like, know, depressed, been going through this shit. And mom was like, you're making more money than you've ever made in your life. like, the literal reverberating. Money doesn't make you fucking happy, mom." "I was like, holy shit, maybe this is God's sign of showing, like, I'm gonna start catching some breaks now or something" Chapters 00:00Introduction and Background 25:27Challenges of Aligning Past and Present 35:22Struggles of Recovery and Fatherhood 38:07Dealing with Depression and Imposter Syndrome 40:24Complicated Relationship with Father 41:24Strained Father-Son Relationship 48:31Journey into Drug Addiction 57:18Power Dynamics and Politics in Prison 01:06:57Reflecting on Past Actions 02:51From Addiction to Incarceration: Chappie's Story 23:01Navigating Prison Politics: Chappie's Experience 42:52The Near-Death Experience that Led to Sobriety: Chappie's Turning Point 01:02:46Evolution of Belief: Chappie's Journey with God and Spirituality 01:23:09Staying Sober and Helping Others: Chappie's Commitment to Recovery 01:56:04Conclusion

Coming soon: "Diddy Declassified: US Intel & the Zio Influence in Hip Hop ft SLANK" patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Sub to the PPM Patreon before we begin mapping the Diddler sex trafficking nexus. The full versions of the final 2 Bohemian GrOVO installments available exclusively over there. **Note: Spotify only gives so much space for liner notes, so I'm not going to bother trying to condense the entire index down & squeeze it within 4k characters. Head on over to the Patreon to view the EP notes in their entirety** Here's the monstrous 3rd panel in this Bohemian GrOVO triptych... We've mapped the Drake & Busters sex trafficking nexus, we've covered the XXXTentacion clipping, and now it's time for our forensic recreation of that supremely uncanny, peak pandemic (psychically speaking) mass casualty event, namely Travis Scott's AstroWorld mega ritual in Houston, TX, where Drake & Travis cavorted about on a Satanic set dressed stage dedicated to Mammon while upwards of 10 people (and possibly more, if various firsthand accounts are to be believed) died by crushing, ODing, & possibly syringe pricking in the gatecrashed scrum of ragers before them. Thanks again to Rap Game Edward Bernays for riding shotgun on this mammoth series & bringing his encyclopedic hip hop lore knowledge & deadpan wit to the proceedings. Give him a follow at @edward__bernays on Twitter. Tracks: | Travis Scott ft MIA - "Franchise" | | Michael Jackson & Friends - "What More Can I Give" | | Travis Scott ft Drake - "Sicko Mode" | | Drake ft 21 Savage - "Knife Talk" |

[Dive Deep Link Tree] @AugustSkyMusic is a Profesional Musician, World Traveler, Student of life, long time best friend that I found in the music scene about 10 years ago. We've been on hilarious amazing festival adentures (Shout out to The Sonic Portal), seen some wild sh!t, and had some beautiful times jamming and adventuring together. I consider Nick a true Brother and best friend, he does a great job calling me all the time and I LOVE him for that, and more! Y'all will be able to tell Nick's an awesome character from this Philippines Mission Report. For this recording, we caught him right at the end of his 1 month journey before flying back to the U.S. He was tattooed by the planet's oldest living tattoo artist, whang od. Collaborated with a dope singer out there, Oding. and I'll leave the rest to your ears ;) insta: augustskymusic August Sky on Spotify Musician "Elderberry Sunsets" Ep is available on all streaming platforms now!!!theaugustskyproject@gmail.com for booking inquiries. 2024 Tour Dates; August 8-10: Republic, Michigan SUMMER'S END SMOKEOUT W Mike Jones, Maddy O'neil & tons more! August 22-24: Independence, Iowa BALANCE Music & Arts Festival w Daily Bread, Opiuo, Levity & many more! September 28th: Mendota, IL Jamboozled linktr.ee/augustsky First time trying to release the video on Spotify, please let me know if you like it/watch it, as well as listen! Take some time to check out my sponsers that support the show on the Dive Deep with Drake Link Tree Blue Blockers from Eye Keeper GROUNDING SANDALS from Earth Runners!! Code "EyeAmDivine" for lifetime savings w Purium Superfoods Also proud of my Information Portal where I list all kinds of dope info from Music & Art to Scientists and Spiritual Researchers, or note worthy blogs and articles. Until Next Time Family, Be Well, Namaste, Drake The Space Wizard --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drakemfree/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/drakemfree/support

Lamar Odom linked up with Adam to talk about his brand new podcast with Caitlyn and their cohost Zach, his past challenges, reality TV, and more! ----- 0:00 Intro 0:22 Lamar and his associate Zach present their podcast "Keeping Up With Sports" (like Keeping up with Kardashians) 3:30 Are the Kardashians really mad at the pod? "The show is not about them" 4:40 Why Caitlyn is not doing press with Lamar? 7:30 Adam is surprised he didnt see them at the P Hub awards, Zach praises Plug Talk, Adam asks if there's any chance his pod takes the same trajectory lol "NOPE!" 9:20 Lamar is single: "I enjoy m****bation"; Adam asks what's his ritual? "Get up and do it" 11:25 Lamar says ex NBA player Larry Sanders started doing p, Adam remembers shooting his shot with Keysah Chavis 13:05 Lamar says he used to play with Joe Smith and that he can rap too 13:55 Lamar says he jumped in the pod scene coz it's poppin so he was like why not, while reality TV is scripted, he says his show with Khloe was not at all, "Lam Lam" was his nickname 16:00 Adam explains his April fools prank and how the roll out/build up came about 17:28 Zach keeps repeating what Adam says 18:38 Lamar says he wants more kids 21:05 De Niro had a kid at 80, how do you even have sex at 80? lol, The 3 ask Adam's dad who's in the room 22:40 Lamar interview with Bootleg Kev, Kev is so knowledgeable on basketball 26:30 Lamar recovery homes project, money is tight he's looking for investors, Lamar says he's the best person to do this coz he lived it 28:40 Lil Peep od kinda woke a few ppl up from using 29:28 After the coma, Lamar never tried any drugs again, says he had 12 strokes and 6 heart attacks after the coma 29:55 Adam asks who would have been motivated to harm him, says he gave the owner of the place, Dennis, $75,000 soon as he walked in, dude was sketchy 31:30 Rumor has it that Lamar tried blow during a wild night, a dude left Lamar with his girl to be w her that night 32:53 Adam tells a story of a podcaster who wanted Adam to F his wife 37:50 Adam talks about his friend who od while in rehab, Lamar wants to start his own facility, 39:30 Lamar talks about enablers, his best friend was one of them, his "get high buddy", however that friend didn't survive 40:00 Says they were hangin out one day he took his shoes off and Lamar says it smelled like death 42:37 Adam recalls the Blackout Girls episode w that girl talking about Tristan Thompson and Khloe sending a cease and desist 45:25 Adam says he has a scene later on that day, Lamar asks if he can watch 46:30 Adam asks if Lamar is still a s*x a**ct, long pause/laughs 48:30 Diddy parties, you're safe when it's a big party not like 4 ppl type thing 51:50 Kanye's fall from grace? Lamar says he looks up to Kanye coz he's black, an owner, although they haven't really been in touch since he woke up from his coma 55:30 Lamar guests on the pod, Sugar Ray Leonard was a guest and talked about ab***e 57:55 Lamar says it was a wake up call to be in a coma coz he might still be wild if it hadnt happened 58:40 Lamar wants to be surrounded by ppl who motivate him, who are smarter than him, that he can learn from 1:01:45 Lamar wants to help the homeless/clean it up, but he doesn't know how, seeing kids on skid row is heartbreaking 1:05:05 "1 + 1 = 1 not circle" huh? lol 1:07:00 Zach and Adam tell Lamar what Soft White Underbelly is 1:08:05 Lamar is hungry at that point, he wants to eat not "Baja Fresh" lol, Zach wanna bulk up 1:10:40 Lamar keeps looking at Lena's flash light "she got a nice box" lol 1:11:40 Would Lamar give a t***s a chance? "This guy's crazy" Lamar walks out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Happy Thanksgiving! We hate this holiday. Food, family, all of the above. So instead of getting into all that, this week we're talking about the guy giving himself electroshock erections to live forever. Plus, shit funny old dads say, ODing on caffeine, and a little Kardashian Katch Up.Connect with So Firedsofiredpod.comIG: @sofiredpodTikTok: @sofiredpodcastChelsea's IG: @chelsea_turanoLindsay's IG: @dr.lindsaylifestyleYouTube:  So Fired Podcast

On this week-in-review, Crystal is joined by the former Director of Progressive Majority who has now transitioned into public service but remains involved in numerous political efforts across Washington, EJ Juárez! They discuss Mayor Bruce Harrell's business-as-usual budget proposal - how it lacks bold vision, doesn't address the pressing problems we face, and double downs on police as our only public safety solution by ignoring calls for civilian-led alternative response and reviving conversation about failed ShotSpotter technology. Crystal and EJ's conversation then moves to Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison signing onto a pro-encampment sweeps brief, Target trying to blame store closures on crime, Green Jacket Lady schooling a Fox News reporter, and a study showing drug decriminalization didn't lead to increased overdose deaths. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, EJ Juárez at @EliseoJJuarez.   Resources “Joy Hollingsworth, Candidate for Seattle City Council District 3” from Hacks & Wonks   “Alex Hudson, Candidate for Seattle City Council District 3” from Hacks & Wonks   “Harrell's Proposed Budget Brings Back Shotspotter, Funds Human Services Workers, Includes No New Diversion for Drug Users” by Erica C. Barnett from PubliCola   “Business Bestie Mayor Harrell Ignores Gaping Hole in the Budget” by Hannah Krieg from The Stranger   “Four Problems with the ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection System” by Jay Stanley from the Amercan Civil Liberties Union   “City Attorney Davison Signs Brief Demanding Right to Sweep Encampments Without Offering Shelter” by Erica C. Barnett from PubliCola   “As Seattle Targets close, shoppers question if crime really is to blame” by Renata Geraldo from The Seattle Times   @DivestSPD on Twitter: “Seattle Times headline: Target closing stores due to crime.  21st paragraph: Shoplifting is down 60% overall, 40% in UDistrict, and 35% downtown.  Next graph: Retailers don't always report, so you can just treat those numbers like they don't matter.”   “Seattleites challenge Fox News' spin on the city's crime” by Melissa Santos from Axios   @abughazalehkat on Twitter: “Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.”   “New study suggests looser WA drug laws do not mean more overdose deaths” by Claire Withycombe from The Seattle Times   Find stories that Crystal is reading here   Listen on your favorite podcast app to all our episodes here   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Tuesday topical show and Friday week-in-review delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. If you missed this week's topical shows, we continued our series of Seattle City Council candidate interviews. All 14 candidates for 7 positions were invited and we had in-depth conversations with many of them. This week, we presented District 3 candidates, Joy Hollingsworth and Alex Hudson. Have a listen to those and stay tuned over the coming weeks. We hope these interviews will help voters better understand who these candidates are and inform their choices for the November 7th general election. Today, we're continuing our Friday week-in-review shows where we review the news of the week with a co-host. Welcome back to the program, friend of the show and today's co-host: the former director of Progressive Majority who's now transitioned into public service and remains involved in numerous political efforts across Washington, EJ Juárez. Hey! [00:01:42] EJ Juárez: Sorry, everybody - I'm back. [00:01:46] Crystal Fincher: We love having you and there are always comments from listeners about how insightful you are when you're on - more than usual - so it's always great to have you on. I want to start talking about Seattle's mayor's budget proposal this week. Mayor Bruce Harrell released his budget that he will be presenting, or did present, to the council and city. The council will also take up the budget - they ultimately have the responsibility for passing a budget. But this is the mayor's recommendation - his take on where we should be moving the city. What were your big takeaways about what were in the budget and where do you see this going? [00:02:28] EJ Juárez: Yeah, thanks. I think, first of all, this is a budget that really lacked a bold vision. And I think that my biggest takeaway was this is very much, in many ways, business as usual. This is the values document from an administration that's, I think, still pretending it's a decade ago and not catching up with the problems of today. There's no huge solutions here to some of the most pressing problems for the region and the city, but ultimately, the big swings that you would expect from a mayor who has a significant amount of political capital in the moment are missing. We don't have big swings for human service workers with large increases in pay and benefits to get them to where they need to be able to stay in this city and serve the people, as well as address the problems that are affecting every other element of City services. I think the other thing that was pretty shocking is the fact that we are still spending as much money as we are on the police alone in this city. This is not an integrated approach to safety or even really improving the conditions of different places around the city. So, again, I was a little dumbfounded. [00:03:41] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, I think, overall, this is not a budget that anyone is finding surprising from Mayor Bruce Harrell. I think your point is well taken that it seems to lack the kind of investment and scale to meaningfully address the biggest challenges that the city is facing - in two different directions - one, in the revenue and services direction, certainly more voters are demanding a more comprehensive public safety response. This looks to largely be a traditional public safety response - there is money in there for a co-response program, there doesn't seem to be new revenue for diversion, which was supposed to be part of the safety legislation that gives the city attorney power to prosecute drug possession in the city and public drug use. It doesn't seem to meaningfully invest in the issues that are most pressing for the city. Two glaring omissions in the budget are - there doesn't seem to be any preparation or contention - or at least at this point, it's hard to see - for the major upcoming budget deficit that the City is going to be facing. In the next budget - not this year, but next year - there's predicted to be a $225 million budget deficit. And that's quite a bit of money that's gonna require either significant cuts or a significant increase in revenue. So you would think that some of that preparation would be happening now. City council candidates are talking about it, departments are talking about it. And so it's weird that the chief executive of the City - the mayor - is not contending with that in the budget. I don't know if we're gonna be hearing more about that, but I hope we do because certainly the City needs a plan to get through that while addressing the City workers who are crucial to delivering on the mayor's agenda, on what the City just needs to do to operate and serve its residents. What's gonna be happening with that? They deserve a cost of living increase. I hope they get it. They're gonna be negotiating for that. But where is that going to come from in the budget? And it's going to have to be a bigger number than they're accounting for now. There are just some things that don't seem like they're meaningfully dealt with in the way that residents are demanding, and in a way that will solve the challenges that residents are demanding being solved and that Mayor Harrell says is on his agenda. [00:05:57] EJ Juárez: I think you hit it right on the head in that - when you're faced with what will likely be a $500 million deficit in just two and a half years here, we are going to have to make really difficult and painful choices. That's not a number you can just raise your parking rates to get out of, which is what he's proposing. Maybe there's gonna be a huge influx for FIFA coming up and all of the sporting events and concerts, but there's not enough Taylor Swifts in the world to get us to $500 million with just raising parking rates to get us out of the forthcoming deficit. I really worry that the political courage to actually solve this problem just isn't there. This is a really, I think, high-profile instance of kicking that can down the road - either to the council or to the next mayor - to say, Hey, I'm gonna drive us towards the cliff, but you're gonna be at the steering wheel when it goes over. And it's really unfortunate because I think at that point, the options will have dwindled to fairly unpopular choices. And if those choices don't go forward, we will live with cuts that will both harm the residents of this city, but potentially cripple agencies and public services for up to a decade. I think we all remember what happened in the last recession when deep cuts to manage the forthcoming cuts at the time were ramping up - it took 10 years for agencies to get back to pre-2008 levels - with the inability of leaders to raise revenue quickly and plan accordingly. [00:07:20] Crystal Fincher: There are lots of people who have said before that budgets are moral documents. They reflect your priorities. You put your money where your mouth is. And once again, we see residents of the city absolutely saying - I think by and large, it's fair to characterize where people are at the city saying - they don't mind funding extra police, but they also want to fund better alternative response programs, more comprehensive solutions to public safety and meeting people's basic needs - that helps keep people out of paths that lead to crime, or poverty, or homelessness, or all of those things. We know that investing in education, basic needs, making sure people do have their basic needs met does positively impact all of those other areas. Investment in police again this year - after lots of prior investments - $392 million. Alternatives to police - $5 million. And when you look at what that really means in the budget after years and years of this being asked for, demanded, actually funded by the council - this just seems like paying weak lip service to something the city's desperately in need of. So we'll continue to see. Another item in there - that I was surprised to see back this year - was a proposal for ShotSpotter, which is infamous at this point in time. About a decade ago, it was viewed as this revolutionary new tech that could help automatically detect where gunshots are coming from, and help better deploy police, anticipate where people are coming from. It was supposed to be a positive new tool. What actually resulted was that it was very bad at detecting gunshots - it detected a lot of things that were not gunshots as gunshots, provoking police responses where they were not needed, where they were harmful or dangerous, and really just ended up not being an effective way to address gun violence at all. And cities regretting the money that they spent on that. That had all happened. This is not new news. This is 5 and 10 years ago news. But for some reason, not only was it proposed in the mayor's budget last year and was widely panned, but it's back this year for some reason. Bruce really likes ShotSpotter, despite the fact that there's so much evidence against it. And it just seems like there is so much on the plate to do, to knock out, to try - when it comes to the suite of public safety and community safety initiatives that we could be launching, why are we still talking about this? [00:09:47] EJ Juárez: It is - the question I think that's on a lot of people's mind right now is when you have such a loud chorus from folks across the city who typically are not aligned on issues, who typically are not singing the same song, you have everybody largely lined up saying - This is a bad program. This is proven to not work. And here's a decade's worth of evidence. This is really Bruce against the world on this one. And Bruce is the loudest cheerleader for this program, which has huge consequences for communities of color, low-income communities, and just the general public. It is mind-blowing that again - the singular focus on implementing this program from the mayor's office is just devoid of any input or any, I think, actual critical thinking about what is this doing for the city. Yeah, I'm still stunned. [00:10:36] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, so we will continue to follow that process. This is going to be important. It's gonna be important for you to talk to your councilmembers, council candidates, let the mayor and the mayor's office know how you feel about this. It's a document for how the City is going to be run, managed, and should reflect your priorities - and not just those of moneyed interests in the city. So I hope people do engage. We will certainly stay tuned on that. I also wanna talk about this week news that City Attorney Ann Davison signed onto a brief demanding the right to sweep encampments without shelter as a prior Supreme Court decision - Martin v. Boise - what was that decision called - where it was ruled by the Ninth Circuit Court that it is unconstitutional to sweep people from encampments without offering shelter. Basically, if you have nowhere else for them to go - if they have nowhere to go - you can't sweep them. That's cruel, it's unusual, it's inhumane, it's unconstitutional - currently. And so that's why sometimes we've seen legitimate, good faith offers to try and get people into shelter. Unfortunately, we are operating in a time where we know we have inadequate shelter space - number one. And even that shelter sometimes is so inadequate - maybe just one night's worth of shelter - and there are lots of times restrictions and conditions placed on it. There are curfews. If it's a congregate shelter situation, that is - one, no longer viewed as a best practice, but an area that understandably has lots of concerns and fear attached to it. And if you think about - hey, you're going somewhere and you're just gonna be shoved into a room with people who you may not know, people who may be experiencing some of the hardest times in their life, may not be as stable as ideal. And that's a challenge for anyone to be in, and it's hard to stabilize in that kind of situation. And so it's understandable to say - hey, if we're forcing you to go somewhere, there should be somewhere else to go. Otherwise, you're literally just moving the problem around and doing nothing to solve it - probably, definitely destabilizing people further. But this lawsuit is basically saying - Hey, cities should have more autonomy, this is infringing upon cities' ability to make their own decisions. How do you view this lawsuit? [00:12:56] EJ Juárez: I'll start by saying - when you start punishing humans for doing human things, it's a really awful situation you're in. People cannot go without rest. People cannot go without sleep. People must sleep to survive. And people that are already in crisis, who are doing the bare minimum needed to survive as a person, right - getting themselves rest and sleep - I think criminalizing that and making it more difficult for people to do what they need to do, is a really sad state of what we are spending our time legislating and monitoring. I do think that we have obligations to keep sidewalks clear, encampments both safe for the people that are there and I think for the people that are around them. It's obviously a super contentious issue with people on all sides. What I find interesting about this is that the city attorney is essentially joining the - I don't know - progressive, compassionate bastions of North Dakota cities and Colorado Springs to make this argument for a city that clearly has very different values than those places, but that is saying - We wanna do this, but we don't want the responsibility of caring for our residents after we take action on their bodies. We are going to physically move a person and force them out of a place of their choosing and throw our hands up and say - We don't wanna deal with it after that. That's a new thing - and that is a very bold step towards, I think, the opposite of a compassionate response around how we would wanna treat our neighbors, right? And how many times do we hear from the city, the county, or the state about our neighbors? Be kind to your neighbor, love thy neighbor, whatever the phrase that comes out and whatever fluffy PR piece that we get from a government agency - but ultimately it's hollow because we're saying - We will love them until they inconvenience us. And that inconvenience and that discomfort I'm feeling by either seeing or experiencing - tangentially - homelessness is larger and more important than actually caring for the person experiencing a crisis. I find it odd that this is the stake that the city attorney is joining in on with an amicus brief that doesn't involve us, but that is her prerogative. [00:15:06] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, and it is her prerogative as an independently elected City official. Different cities have different systems. Some cities appoint their chief prosecutorial official in the city, Seattle elects it, and it's elected separately than the mayor, than councilmembers, and so there is latitude for the city attorney to act in this way - this is within their jurisdiction. I'm curious to know what councilmembers, what council candidates think about this - but also what the mayor's office thinks about this, which is really interesting. We haven't heard condemnation of it, I don't think. So it seems like this isn't too troublesome to him - and that's not surprising to the office, given what seems to be their current predisposition towards sweeps. But it is - one, interesting that this could happen in this situation because of the way Seattle's government is set up. [00:15:55] EJ Juárez: People will continue to sleep - and that, at the end of the day, this is a lot of effort that our city attorney is spending on a problem where people will continue to sleep and exist. And it is beyond my absolute wildest imagination that a person can spend so much of our City resources and tax money on this problem without it being a signal to political donors, to folks who are furthest from crisis about the disdain that they have for people that are in crisis. [00:16:28] Crystal Fincher: And it is disdain, and really - part of this lawsuit or brief trying to get these rulings really overturned, there were two, Martin v. Boise and then Johnson v. Grant Pass - where the City is essentially, and this group of people bringing this, is essentially arguing that homelessness is a choice. PubliCola did a really informative article on this, and reading from here - they're arguing that calling unsheltered people involuntarily homeless grants a special status on people who, in their view, in reality, engaging in a voluntary behavior by sleeping outdoors, much as an alcoholic who is caught being drunk in public has chosen to drink of his own volition. That's from a Supreme Court case from 1968, whose conclusions are contradicted by modern addiction experts - addiction is not a choice. Once someone is at the point where they're addicted, choice and logic no longer is in that conversation - that's just a biological reality. But it's really insidious, saying, as we do with so many things - Oh, they find themselves in this situation. And how many articles have come out in the past month just talking about the amount of elderly and seniors who are increasingly homeless, that we've seen inflation skyrocket - housing price skyrocket, transportation costs increase, eldercare, childcare, food, everything is increasing. There are lots of people on fixed incomes. If we have a health crisis, that can throw someone into bankruptcy and homelessness. But right now, as we hear in rhetoric and debates and conversations, we're seeing this reflected in this brief - basically saying it's their fault. They're there because it's their fault. It's a moral failing on their behalf. And that gives us license to not have to deal with it. That absolves us of responsibility from having to be responsible for our making sure people have a place to sleep, to live, to not die and languish on the streets. This is really a moral argument at the center of this, which is really insidious. [00:18:33] EJ Juárez: It is, and I can feel my blood boiling as we talk about this now more and more, because we are never allowed to talk about homelessness without having to talk about addiction. We know - study after study and time after time - addiction is not the number one driver of homelessness in this country, nor is it the number one driver of homelessness in any city in this country. The conflation between addiction of any kind and the inability to be stably housed is so often presented to us in every argument about solving this problem, that it is the largest shiny object of distraction - because then it gets into the moral policing, it gets into the individual choices, right? The circumstances that a person may find themselves by choice, which in and of itself, as you just said, is not a true choice - because addiction doesn't work like that. But even in all the articles that we've seen coming out around this and the city attorney's language and our elected leaders, I would love for somebody to do a true study on how many times we can talk about homelessness without talking about addiction - and how often that conflation has ruined otherwise very good solutions to affordability, to making sure that people are able to earn wages that can pay for houses within a reasonable distance from the place of their employment. 'Cause even as we're talking about this - in these sweeps, the articles from the Supreme Court, the things that we're reading in terms of legal precedent - are all focused on this idea that folks are just drunk, folks are high, and therefore they don't wanna be housed. I think both the media needs to do better and our elected officials need to do better 'cause it's played out and it's tiring. [00:20:11] Crystal Fincher: I completely agree. And I feel very similarly about conversations where homelessness is conflated with crime. Homeless people are much more likely to be a victim of crime than almost anyone else - they're victimized to the greatest degree. When it comes to the public safety discussion, everyone deserves to be safe. And that seems to make sense to start with people who are the most in danger, who need the most help - to help them become safe. And unfortunately, the toxicity of this conversation is putting homeless people in more danger - we've seen attacks. And just disgustingly, what's being normalized - was having this conversation with someone yesterday - is how often we see, particularly from right-wing elements, but we also see it from so-called moderates and progressives on campaign mailers in attack ads - is this viewing homelessness as the spectacle. And the very dehumanizing way in which people are shown who are having some of the toughest times in their lives - they're in various stages of crisis and just the exploitation of their likeness, of their images, sharing their locations, their details - that's just dehumanizing. And you're not showing that person with any intent to help, with any engagement with why they're there, with any engagement with who they are as a person. You're simply using that as a tool to degrade and dehumanize them and to really make it seem like this is a choice. But a lot of the language we hear from that is just really dehumanizing. And we hear it in places like Burien who passed a camping ban this week, while still not engaging with any of the free resources offered to them to help solve their problem. It's just really disappointing. And we're engaged in these tropes and this rhetoric that is not tied to the reality of the problem. And it is a problem. There absolutely needs to be effective interventions to help this. I don't think anyone wants anyone sleeping on a sidewalk, I don't think anyone wants encampments there - but those are signals of a greater failure and of policies that we keep doubling down on that don't work. And it's time to stop doing that so we can finally do something that does work to help improve this problem. Also wanna talk about news this week that a couple Targets are closing. And what was notable about this is, as we've seen with some prior press releases and announcements, Target blamed this on crime. But after so many other instances of seeing companies blame some of their store closures on crime and then follow up months after - okay, actually it wasn't the crime, it was some mismanagement, it was just us trying to save money, offload some assets - and that being really disingenuous, or in some other cases, just ways to do some union busting, like in Starbucks's case. But here, these are not in downtown Seattle - these are in two other locations. These are mid-format stores. And a lot of people in the neighborhood say - These stores were not meeting anyone's needs. It's not surprising that they're closing. And it just seems like crime may not be the real reason here, but one that corporations seem to be able to get away with. And then have people in the media basically dictate what they say as a story without any critical examination of their central statement there - that it is because of crime. How do you view this? [00:23:29] EJ Juárez: It's such a troubling trend to watch - particularly retail over the last few years here - throw up their hands in the face of engaging in capitalism. It is - Oh, we want to expand. We're gonna open these stores. We're gonna try new models. But oh, we're actually - it got hard. We're not gonna adapt. We're not gonna try and survive. We're gonna close these stores and blame it on our customers. We're gonna blame it on the neighborhood. We're gonna blame it on the city. We're gonna blame it on X, Y, and Z. And there's this dissidence that's happening amongst these large retailers, I think. But also, I don't know - having gone into the U District Target myself, maybe they shouldn't have had two full racks of unicorn onesies available in a store that was tiny to begin with. So it's okay for business and enterprise to experiment with store formats and changing up what they do, but to then blame - and be, I think, fairly disingenuous about - store closings on crime and creating this really amped up sense of crisis that might not match reality. And I think we saw that come to fruition with The Seattle Times reporting on this, because for the first time, I think, in the face of these closures, we actually have a media outlet that said - Let's check. Let's actually show the truth here. And it showed that the reports don't match what Target is saying around where the incidents of crime and calls to police actually happened, where particularly the Ballard location was the lowest rate of incidents amongst all the Targets in the region. So it is odd to me. I just have to laugh, 'cause I can't get those onesies out of my head. I'm like - Your business didn't work. Adapt. [00:25:04] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. These are not the traditional, full-service, big box Target stores. These are smaller versions that, according to lots of people - myself included - had tons of stuff like those onesies that were not needs. But the stuff that a lot of times you run to the store for - regular household items, food items - were not regularly available, but there were plenty of really nearby stores that had them more available, that were more convenient to get in and out of, at a lower cost - so it's not like there was no competition in this area. It does seem like this was an issue where maybe just the format of the store, like you said, the experimentation didn't work. I do think it is a positive sign that The Seattle Times - after receiving some criticism from prior coverage where - Hey, they reported what the company said. Later on, after actual scrutiny, those claims about closing because of crime didn't hold up. That's not to say that that's not at all a concern. I'm sure everyone has the concern. We need to do a better job of doing the things that we know have a chance at reducing retail theft, those kinds of things - doesn't seem like we're meaningfully investing in the things that have shown to successfully help that. But it looks like, especially amidst so many reports of record profits from some of these same corporations, that maybe this is just a really convenient way to avoid saying our idea didn't work. [00:26:28] EJ Juárez: I think a lot about what has Target, the corporation, done to advocate to make those areas around their stores more livable, more walkable, safe, right? It's a little bit like - I'm gonna grab my toys and go because I don't like the situation I'm in - but I'm not gonna do anything to voice that concern and I'm not actually gonna advocate for policies that improve the conditions around my enterprise's footprint. And had we had a robust response from Target getting involved in those neighborhoods - saying we are here to advocate for our neighborhoods - then I think the lament around closing these stores could be more genuine, but we just didn't see that, and that's a shame. [00:27:07] Crystal Fincher: I do wanna give a shout out real quick to Seattle's Green Jacket Queen, who - we'll link the story in our show notes - but a few people did an excellent job, but one woman in particular went viral after Fox News was doing some Seattle man-on-the-street interviews, trying to basically engage in the "Seattle is Dying" discourse, saying that there are addicts all over the place and rampant crime and carjacking and people shooting up and blah, blah, blah. And she had time that day and she took full advantage of it and basically just was ready - mocked the interviewer - it was just absolutely hilarious. And did not play into the incorrect framing, the incorrect facts, and just plainly stated - No, most people are not walking around scared or worried for their safety. Someone else talked about - The way to address crime is by addressing basic needs, and that helps people get their way out of that is a much more effective way of dealing with that as a community and as a society. And also Green Jacket Lady called out just the fearmongering - the reporter tried to say, I saw people shooting up. Were they bothering you? Oh no, I was in my car. Oh no, in your car. It gave me so much life. I was just so happy to see that - it seems like the city was - because we are starved for pushbacks on these narratives that don't match the reality of what people are living on the ground in the city. [00:28:33] EJ Juárez: I think we're also starved for people that aren't giving us the political speak, that aren't talking in big meta-level stuff. We saw a star born in real time on Fox News and this woman was basically just the embodiment of that meme from a couple of years ago with - Oh, you don't like me? Oh, whatever, you don't care. This is Fox News and it was treated with the exact seriousness that Fox News deserved in the heart of Seattle, which was - You are playing in my face, get out of here. You are not representing our values, get out of here. And I think the fact that she called him out so beautifully - and kindly - with humor, You were in your car. You felt harm in your car driving by? That is the most, I think, Seattle thing ever. And also, how we get painted in the national media by some of these more conservative outlets. So I want this woman to run for mayor. I want her to run for governor. I think I'm ready to go knock on some doors. [00:29:31] Crystal Fincher: Shoot, if she's ready, I will volunteer my services. Let's go. But I will say - she went viral nationally, basically - that's a situation that can have a few pros, but also several cons. And you don't always volunteer to be thrust into the spotlight. I will say I'm impressed - like I saw a few people who chimed in and were like, Oh, that's my friend, I know her. But that I still don't know her name is just a credit to the quality of her friends - not putting all her business out there, maintaining her privacy - which she deserves. If she ever wants to co-host a Friday show, invitation is open. But I also love that her friends are protective of her in that way and not putting her business out there. I saw Melissa Santos with Axios wrote an article, wound up getting in contact with her - and she said she wanted to stay anonymous. We absolutely respect that. And I respect that her friends have made that possible for her. [00:30:25] EJ Juárez: Love it. I'll still buy the merch. Make it happen, Green Jacket Lady - I'm ready. [00:30:30] Crystal Fincher: But I am down. I am ready to ride, Green Jacket Lady. If you ever want to, hit me up. And I just want to close the day talking about a study that says what many of us know, but that if you follow a lot of the legislation being passed - the state level and in many cities - you would wonder why they're doing it. A study finding that decriminalization did not increase overdose deaths at all in Washington or Oregon, which is what many people have been saying - taking a public health approach to drug use is the most effective way to deal with both addiction and just all of the issues surrounding that. And we heard a lot of misinformation, whether it's from the Legislature passing the Blake legislation and increasing criminalization of drug use to conversations in the city of Seattle and elsewhere - talking about the importance of cracking down on drug use, because that's the only way that they'll see. And once again, basically the opposite is the case. And the premise for cracking down being that going soft doesn't work, and people are using drugs more than ever, and ODing more than ever, and we need to crack down to get people safe - just doesn't track with reality. [00:31:45] EJ Juárez: Yeah, I think this was a fairly limited study of only about a year since these things have been passed recently. I think that the critical piece of this is that study needs to continue so that we can see year after year that this first set of data holds. And the fact that it did not show a demonstrable increase in these types of crimes or deaths - this is what anecdotally advocates have been saying, this is what they know from first-hand experience working with those communities. And it's nice to see science looking at policy and it getting the attention it deserves to cut through the noise. And I wanna commend the fact that this study was done. I wanna commend the fact that like they found the grant funding to do this because - especially in the polarizing time that we're in and the really punitive time that we're in, I think researchers and academics who are engaging in this type of work for the public good are often under attack and this is what we need more of. Also, I appreciate the fact that they're looking at two very concrete areas - Washington and Oregon - which are pointed out by national media and others as these places where it's all out of control. But yet it doesn't really match the data, so we know this is getting spun up by people who have different goals than actually helping people. [00:32:58] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, absolutely. And it is good to see this data that's directly applicable to our state in Washington and in Oregon. This does align with several other studies and trials that have been done elsewhere - across the world, really. The War on Drugs is a failure, it's ineffective. And we see alternative paths that get better results and we just refuse to do that. Again, it's not that drugs aren't a problem, it's not that nothing needs to be done - but doing what we know won't work time after time is getting really tiring, it's getting really expensive, and we're losing the opportunity to do so much other good because we're determined to keep following this path which has not been fruitful at all. So with that, I think we will conclude the news of the day. Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks on this Friday, September 29th, 2023. The producer of Hacks & Wonks is Shannon Cheng. Our insightful co-host today is the former director of Progressive Majority, who's transitioned into public service and remains involved in numerous political efforts across Washington, EJ Juárez. You can find EJ on Twitter @EliseoJJuarez. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter. You can find me on Twitter, on Blue Sky, on wherever you wanna find me - I'm pretty much @finchfrii everywhere. You can also get Hacks & Wonks on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to get the full versions of our Friday week-in-review shows and our Tuesday topical shows delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the podcast episode notes. Thanks for tuning in - we'll talk to you next time.

On this week-in-review, Crystal is joined by staff writer at The Stranger covering policing, incarceration and courts, Ashley Nerbovig! Ashley and Crystal discuss (and rant!) about continued and international outrage over Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) leaders caught on body cam laughing about a fellow Seattle Police Department (SPD) officer running over and killing Jaahnavi Kandula - how the SPOG contract makes it near impossible to discipline or fire officers, Mayor Bruce Harrell's responsibility in creating the mess by voting for the contract as a City councilmember and in possibly getting us out of it by delivering a better one from the current negotiations, and how our recruiting problem is a culture problem in a competitive marketplace. The show then covers passage of the War on Drugs 2.0 bill by Seattle City Council, the start of the trial for three Tacoma officers accused of murdering Manny Ellis, and a rally held by Seattle City employees for fair pay. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Ashley Nerbovig, at @AshleyNerbovig. Resources “Tanya Woo, Candidate for Seattle City Council District 2” from Hacks & Wonks   “Tammy Morales, Candidate for Seattle City Council District 2” from Hacks & Wonks   “Seattle Police Officer Probably Won't Get Fired for Laughing about Jaahnavi Kandula's Death” by Ashley Nerbovig from The Stranger   “Police response time to Wing Luke Museum 911 calls raises questions about priorities” by Libby Denkmann and Sarah Leibovitz from KUOW   “Seattle Police Officer Hurls Racist Slur at Chinese-American Neighbor” by Ashley Nerbovig from The Stranger   “‘Feel safer yet?' Seattle police union's contempt keeps showing through” by Danny Westneat from The Seattle Times   “Amid SPD controversy, Mayor Harrell leads with empathy” from Seattle Times Editorial Board   “Seattle Launches Drug War 2.0” by Ashley Nerbovig from The Stranger   “Council Passes New Law Empowering City Attorney to Prosecute People Who Use Drugs in Public” by Erica C. Barnett from PubliCola   @daeshikjr on Twitter: “BREAKING: Seattle City Councilmembers revived a recently voted down bill that many community activists are calling War on Drugs 2.0. We spoke with Sara on her campaign trail about her experience with drugs, mushrooms, and what she hoped to accomplish while in office. …”   “Trial begins for Tacoma officers charged with killing Manuel Ellis” by Jared Brown from KNKX   “Trial of 3 Tacoma police officers accused of killing Manuel Ellis in 2020 gets underway” by Peter Talbot from The News Tribune   “Historic trial begins for 3 officers charged in killing of Manny Ellis” by Patrick Malone from The Seattle Times   @tacoma_action on Twitter: “Here's how you can support the family of Manuel Ellis during the trial…”   Trial Information for State v. Burbank, Collins and Rankine | Pierce County Courts & Law    “City Workers Rally Their Asses Off” by Hannah Krieg from The Stranger   Find stories that Crystal is reading here   Listen on your favorite podcast app to all our episodes here   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Tuesday topical show and our Friday week-in-review delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. If you missed this week's topical shows, we continued our series of Seattle City Council candidate interviews. All 14 candidates for 7 positions were invited and we had in-depth conversations with many of them. This week, we presented District 2 candidates, Tanya Woo and Tammy Morales. Have a listen to those and stay tuned over the coming weeks - we hope these interviews will help voters better understand who these candidates are and inform their choices for the November 7th general election. Today, we're continuing our Friday week-in-review shows where we review the news of the week with a co-host. Welcome to the program for the first time, today's co-host: staff writer at The Stranger covering policing, incarceration and courts - and rocking that coverage - Ashley Nerbovig. Hello. [00:01:42] Ashley Nerbovig: Hey, Crystal - thanks. Hi. [00:01:43] Crystal Fincher: Glad to have you on the show. We have no shortage of things to talk about and particularly this week where everything public safety was exploding, imploding, just all over the place. I want to start off talking about a story that is now making international headlines - the release of the video of an SPD officer, a SPOG executive, mocking the death of Jaahnavi Kandula, who was killed by another policeman while she was just a pedestrian just walking and run over by a policeman who - it didn't seem like he had his lights and sirens on, going over 70 miles per hour. Just such a tragedy in the first place, and then outrage was the dominant feeling nationally, internationally when that video came out. What is going to happen or what does it look like is going to happen? You wrote a great piece this week about that. [00:02:42] Ashley Nerbovig: Yeah, he's not gonna get fired - for sure - unless something wildly out of the normal process happens. And even if that does, the arbitration process is such that they would look at the SPOG contract and be like - There was nothing in this that he did that's actually fireable. - and it's super frustrating to watch. And in that story, I break down how we've seen these cases before - that cops have said really outrageous stuff, or even done something pretty outrageous, or something that the public looks at as pretty outrageous - and the reaction has been either it's a written reprimand or it's unsustained findings. One of the examples I gave was that there was multiple officers in one car who - one of them said - they accelerate toward protesters, people can be heard to be laughing. And so one of them says - I effing hate these people - or something along those lines. And because they couldn't narrow it in and prove who said it, and none of the cops inside said who said it - it's frustrating, but it also makes sense when you read the SPOG contract - because they have to prove beyond a preponderance of evidence, which is more than 50%, which sounds like a pretty low standard to hop over. But actually, I think they did a review of a bunch of different cops' policies on what they have to prove to require discipline across the country and SPD is in a very small minority - the majority of people have something that's lower or at a preponderance of evidence, and our standard is right above it. You see all of this outrage, and then you see Andrew Lewis and Lisa Herbold and Mayor Harrell and SPOG all say, essentially - We want to watch the OPA process, we're excited to watch that investigation. - as if they don't know that anyone reading the SPOG contract, anyone who's read enough OPA cases knows that this is going to end in the cop continuing to be on the force. And to some extent, you can make the argument that if this was one isolated comment, maybe it wouldn't be a firing that was justified. But when you look at his entire career, and then when you also look at what the actual other punishments are, right? You can get suspended, but you don't have that suspension served consecutively - you can serve it throughout a year. So it means that - the whole point of having a suspension is that they don't get paid, and it hurts their bottom line, and it's something to avoid. If you're just serving out a 15-day suspension over a year, and then you're making it up with tons of overtime, what are the consequences for cops in this city? And the answer is that our police accountability systems do not have actual consequences for our officers right now. [00:05:28] Crystal Fincher: Not at all. And it's infuriating. And this has kicked off a conversation that we've had before - just talking about the SPOG contract and the importance of that - there are a lot of people who are new here who weren't paying attention several years ago. There was an attempt that the City of Seattle - the council in particular - attempted to do this. They passed police accountability legislation that tightened that up. But then the current SPOG contract that's in place - was approved by Mayor Harrell on the council, by the way, who voted for the current contract that is currently handcuffing him and preventing him from being able to do anything about this - that superseded many of the City ordinances that dealt with this. And one thing that a lot of people don't know is that contract can supersede City law. So the things that the City thinks is happening, the process that we have - our democratic, our initiative process, the council process - all falls by the wayside when this is approved. And at the time, this was approved on a narrow vote - this was not, the conversation leading up to the approval of this current contract was not like - Oh, this looks great, it's fine. Lorena González infamously toiled over the vote that she was going to do, and later said that she regretted voting to approving it. But they were warned that this was going to happen. They were warned that moving backwards on accountability was going to produce really unsavory results. And lo and behold, here we are. So once again, we're in a situation where everyone - almost everyone - agrees. Most members of the public, of the national community, international community agree this is egregious. This is unacceptable. And the City's handcuffed because of this current contract. And I just want people to be aware that the next contract is currently being negotiated. The mayor's office - the same mayor who approved this current contract - is currently negotiating this next contract. And is Bruce Harrell going to ensure that something like this can't happen again with no remedy, or recourse, or consequence? That's really going to be up to how this contract is negotiated and structured. I don't know what's going to happen with this officer in this incident - he has a long record himself of issues, complaints - and I don't know what's happening with that is going to go through this process. But the executive's office, the council who will ultimately have to approve this contract does have a say in whether or not something like this can happen again. And I think they owe the residents of the city assurances that this shouldn't happen. We're seeing so many of these examples. This isn't the first example of a death mocked - it's just the first one that we have on video that's public. There was a tombstone before, there's been social media posts before. And also the fact that this was, I believe, VP of the Seattle Police Officers Guild. When you have leaders doing this - similar to the assistant police chief in Kent who displayed literal Nazi memorabilia - that speaks to culture. These are leaders. These are people dictating what we have here. And tangentially, and this is going on while we're having a conversation about police being short-staffed, while we're having a conversation about how hard it is to recruit - after the city has thrown money and recruitment bonuses and retainment bonuses at people. And can we just acknowledge that someone looking at this, now that they have the choice to join any police department, basically, they want to - they're all hiring - why would they join Seattle? This is the recruiting problem here. It's this culture. It's this continued drumbeat of toxic, distasteful stuff. [00:09:06] Ashley Nerbovig: I think you're right about it being a culture problem. But I also think that the strength of our SPOG contract - you could make an argument that these are some of the most protected City employees. And it's across the board that people don't want to be cops. And it makes sense because even if you take away all of the controversies, local governments overall are struggling right now to recruit people for any job. And then on top of it, you're talking about a job that requires a lot of no work from home - we've had a complete culture shift in what we value about work. And I think when you look at what the job of being a cop is, it's you have to live in a certain location, basically, you can live - although Auderer lives in Olympia, I think, so you can live far away - but you have to be able to go to work in-person. And then on top of it, you're tied to all of this really negative associations that we have with cops, and this shift in how we've thought about cops. And you're competing in a really tight job market where there's a lot of really - yes, you get a lot of money being a Seattle police officer, but that requires a lot of overtime. You can make that same money just like having a normal 40-hour workweek if you work something tech, and it can also be more flexible and more remote. I just think that the problem is exactly that being a cop is not appealing, and we can't change that - no one wants these jobs. And so why are we not talking about what people do want to work and starting from that place of - people do want to help people. I think a lot of cops in those positions talk about reshifting budget priorities, and that would mean changing their jobs. But cops were the first people to tell me that they didn't want to be social workers, that they weren't trying to do social work - and that they felt like they didn't have the tools and they weren't the people to be doing mental health intervention, or drug abuse intervention. Or homelessness intervention. You can't help someone unsheltered when you're a cop. The only thing cops can do is jail. I thought something really interesting - I know this is something we're going to talk about in a bit - and I really want to say something that I thought about with the SPOG contract. One of the things that I can't remember if it was Teresa Mosqueda or Morales who said it, but one of them was like - If we aren't funding these treatment options - when they were talking about the drug vote - If we aren't funding these treatment options, and we aren't funding these diversion programs, the only thing cops are going to be able to do if they want to get someone off the street is put them in jail. And I think that people have this idea that cops have other options, but that's their tool. It's not a choice for them. The only solution for cops is to arrest - that is their main job activity. And just this idea that people don't want these jobs, they are not effective for the problems that we have, and yet we have this desperation - and Bruce Harrell has this desperation to cling to tough-on-crime policies. And it's dumb. And you don't see any solutions, but people like to pretend like they saw some improvement - when they just like the feeling of, oh - you don't see anything change when you put a tough-on-crime policy. There's this idea that all of our - anytime we do something that's like violence intervention or like a community-based approach - that we don't see the results very quickly. And it always is so funny to me, because I'm like, you don't see - no one in their day-to-day life, if we tomorrow said you can arrest - other than maybe someone who went downtown and all of the homeless people, we can't even put anyone in the King County Jail. So I don't know what they're talking about right now, but you don't actually see a marked improvement - you just get a shift in media narratives - that's all that changes, really, in my opinion. [00:12:49] Crystal Fincher: This is the same thing that we're doing - and your point is exactly correct - we're only funding one thing. And what you fund, what you put resources to, is what you're going to have. We are so desperately short of other support services, behavioral health support services. And there are entities in the process of addressing that, right? Absolutely frustrating that it's not here now, there is some work being done there. So progress is being made largely at the county level and regionally. But this is not going to work. This is the same old thing. The thing that I find troubling, particularly as a progressive political consultant, is that this makes passing progressive policy harder. Because if you dress something up like progressive policy - Oh, it's really important that we treat root causes. And yeah, we all believe it. - and they all say that until it's time to actually put their money where their mouth is, to actually do the thing, to implement it. And then what we get is this warmed-over piece of legislation that does one of the things - yes, we can arrest - and makes it harder than it was before to do the other things. And it was astronomically hard before. We know what's going to happen with this. So the real question is, so what are they going to blame for the failure of this next? What excuse is coming up next? I talk to a lot of people, lay people, some people - I just like hearing an unfiltered opinion of someone who's not an insidery insider and paying attention to all the policy and stuff. And you would be shocked by how many people who are - they don't consider themselves super leftist, probably general Democrats, but they don't really pay attention to much - who are under the impression that Seattle's progressive city council has run amok. And it's like, when it comes to public safety, they are not passing progressive policy. Unfortunately, the conservative council - that is the policy that we have and that we've continued. And when everybody rushes to put that label on it - we're going to see a lot of political communication coming up soon, where I'm sure everybody is going to call themselves a progressive, probably pragmatic progressive, responsible progressive - but like they cling to that word and they want to present their policy is that. But when it's not, all it does is hurt actual progressive policy. So it's important for people to stand up and be like - No, we see that, and we see that it's not what the community is demanding and asking for. It's just really frustrating. We should probably get back to some of this news a little bit. [00:15:02] Ashley Nerbovig: There's just one last thing I want to say about Danny Westneat - this is going back a couple topics, but it was something that you said about the SPOG contract and that this is the leadership of SPOG. And Danny had a - bless his heart, he tried, probably - I quote tweeted it when I read the first couple of graphs. And then I went back and read his whole column about Auderer - I can't even say his last name - but the SPOG VP's comments. And he said quite a few things that were just absolutely ridiculous, where he talks about how SPOG uses public safety as a bargaining chip and says essentially - Oh, it'd be a shame if something happened to this beautiful city of yours. And then he goes on to give them that bargaining chip and say that Seattle desperately needs more cops. And then he goes to talking about how - he names a city that basically did defund because they also broke up their cop union. And it's just such a wild series of thoughts. And he concludes it on - SPOG needs to clean house. And it's so frustrating - even if you're just thinking of it logically - if you are a member of SPOG, and your vice president has gotten out of this many OPA investigations with little to no punishment - you don't think they know who is leading them? That's who I want as my union vice president - I want someone who's gotten away with a bunch of stuff - that is how you stay safe and stay protected - and who's going to clean house - the leadership? The leadership is the problem. Anyway, I just wanted to fully round that out by giving Danny like a 2 out of 5 stars on that column. [00:16:35] Crystal Fincher: There are a lot of people who are like - Wow, okay, didn't think there was going to be a day where many of them agreed with Danny Westneat. He got some of the way there. I think one of the challenges with that is a tendency to view unions as separate from workers, and the union as separate from the cops. They are elected by their peers in the union - this is representative of the culture, this is the result of them saying these are the people we feel best represent us. And this is what it is. If that's not a red flag, I don't know what is - but here we are. And it's hard for me to separate SPOG versus police because SPOG is police. And it's just time we had a serious conversation about real accountability. And it's a tangible conversation - there is someone responsible for this, there is an intervention that can work here - we can negotiate this. It's up to the mayor, the people on negotiating committee, it's up to the council who's going to approve this. This doesn't just happen - they're permitted to happen by a contract that is in place. And if we're unhappy with it, and if City Hall can't see that the people are unhappy with a contract that enables this, the question is - particularly for Bruce Harrell, who is the boss of the police department - they literally report to him, police chief literally reports to him, direct report, his responsibility. What is he going to do now? Is he going to respond to this and say, I'm going to ensure this doesn't happen again? Because that's a buck-stops-here attitude that is normally expected of an executive. That's the job. What is he going to do to ensure this doesn't happen again? How is he going to live up to his word that he's going to improve the culture and improve public safety? We're waiting. And it seems like they're just permitting this. They're just - Oh, that's too bad. [00:18:20] Ashley Nerbovig: The Seattle editorial board said he's been leading with empathy. If anyone really wants to rage out, read that editorial. I don't know if Bruce called and said he was going to cancel the whole city's subscription to The Seattle Times, but it's just absolute garbage. Kandula was killed while Officer Kevin Dave was responding to a guy who had too much cocaine and wasn't even ODing. Rich, my editor, said this to me earlier this week, where he was like, we were talking about the drug vote, and he was saying - This is just another example of how cops shouldn't be the ones responding to people overdosing. EMTs can go to these things. [00:18:56] Crystal Fincher: And do in most other cities - without police, to be clear. [00:18:59] Ashley Nerbovig: And you mentioned earlier that it was unclear about his lights. And I don't know for sure what was going on there, because I know his in-car video wasn't working. But I've read another OPA case where someone had said that a cop was just turning on his lights and sirens to get through red lights - and the justification for that that they showed was that it was like - oh, he was tactically using his lights and sirens, which means that they only turn them on to get through lights and stuff, even though he's responding to a call. And when they do that, it means that their in-car video doesn't turn on. And that's allowed because - oh, it's a tactic. And super curious to see the end of this OPA report for Kevin Dave. EMTs are not worried about sneaking up on people - they just turn on their lights and go. But yeah, it's going to be really frustrating to watch. [00:19:45] Crystal Fincher: So now can you break down what this legislation does? Because I've seen it characterized in a number of different ways - Oh, it's making drugs illegal. It's like doing different things. What did this legislation actually change? [00:19:56] Ashley Nerbovig: This particular piece of legislation - to do my full roundup of this - everybody knows that in 2021, the Washington Supreme Court struck down our felony drug possession law. The Washington State Legislature scrambled to pass something - and they passed this idea of we're going to do two referrals to treatment before we arrest anyone, and we're only going to arrest on a misdemeanor, and that went across the state for people in possession of drugs. That went on for two years and it was unworkable - they didn't structure it, they didn't create a database for people to be marking referrals - it's called a stopgap measure. It was one of those things where it was a really half thought-out piece of what potentially could be progressive legislation, did more harm than just making it a misdemeanor and then trying to talk about decriminalization a little bit later - I think that might have actually ended up being strategically a better way to go, except you would have seen a bunch of people arrested in that time. The result is that they came back this session and they said - Okay, no. They had that big fight and they said - We're going to make it a gross misdemeanor, your first two offenses you're going to get a maximum sentence of 180 days, any offenses after that you're going to go up to 364 days. And they said - We prefer people defer to treatment, we prefer cops defer. - that was one thing that Herbold and Lewis both kept saying is - their City bill, that it was different from the state bill and that it starts the diversion out of the system process at the cop level before people even have a case started, whereas they kept describing the state bill as getting started. There are multiple places throughout the system that you can get diverted - you can get diverted before you get arrested so there's never anything on your record, you can get diverted after you've been arrested by the cops and now the prosecutors are in charge of your case and they defer any charges or defer any charges from getting actually convicted and then you're able to get it off of your record. So that's deferred prosecution. And then there's, you can get stuff - after you've been sentenced, you can get stuff wiped off your record. The argument that the City was making in how their bill was different from the state bill is they're saying - Oh, we really make it clear that our policy is not to arrest. The state bill does too. They say that it's their preference that people are diverted to treatment rather than be arrested. They also put a bunch of deferred prosecution stuff in there to divert people out of the system once they have charges against them. It's easier to talk about what this bill didn't do. It set a policy that said - This is our preference by the City of Seattle. So the state law was already in place. And now because it's a misdemeanor, state law passes - that starts in August, like everything gets implemented. So technically, cops could find people who were using drugs in public or possessing drugs in public and arrest them on a gross misdemeanor. And I think the using is such an interesting part of this, because there's nothing about possession as a charge that doesn't get at the same thing that public use does. When you make it all about public use and you add public use plus possession to this law, it is such a dog whistle towards people who are just mad at unhoused people. Morales said something really clear in the City Council vote, which was that this bill is not going to curb public use because the people who this bill is targeting have nowhere else to use. And so the state law passes, SPD cops can do this. But if SPD cops right now in Seattle - or right before this, because Harrell signed the bill yesterday - before this bill passed, if they arrested someone, their charges, because Seattle doesn't have its own ordinance, would have gone to Leesa Manion's office, the King County Prosecutor's, which would have made a ton of sense. King County Prosecutor's has a bunch of programs already in place for this - they've already been dealing with felony versions of this for a long time. But her office did a weird thing and got really like - We don't have the misdemeanor staff to handle this and these felony drug courts that we have wouldn't even apply to this. They did a bunch of workarounds - they really quashed the idea of these cases getting referred to them really early on, or at least they asked for money from us that apparently City Council just was unwilling to try to negotiate - or they were unwilling to negotiate trying to work out a contract. I never really understood what her motivations were with that or were slamming it down so hard. And so the City said - We're going to implement this ordinance and we're going to send these cases to our city attorney, Republican Ann Davison. So that's what this law does is that it doesn't - anyone who describes it - all that this law does is say that now Ann Davison can prosecute these cases, and also we would really like it if cops didn't arrest people on these charges. And it says - and I'll give them this - it adds a bunch of paperwork that cops now need to have when they do arrest someone on a drug possession charge. But I think Morales really summed it up really well where she said - This does not expand any diversion, it doesn't expand any treatment. - and this is probably a little bit more opinion-based, but - It doesn't improve public safety in any way. And I think that's so key is that we can ask - even if it's not, even if you aren't someone that believes in the nefarious, like that cops are all like Auderer and don't care about behavioral health and don't really look at people who are addicts on the street as someone that needs public health intervention - let's buy the premise that there are well-meaning cops out there who want to take these people to treatment. We do not have resources. And this idea that - in the City Council staff member, or the City Council Central Staff's memo, they said - Diversion requires social workers. These are actually much longer, much more resource-intensive cases. And cops are going to maybe divert the first or second time that they find someone, but then there's no resources to pick that person up - there's nothing to actually help them, maybe they're not ready to get treatment yet. And at some point, they're just going to arrest them and they're going to go through all of the charges. And maybe they're not going to go to jail because King County won't take them right now, but it's creating the structure for that. And they're still going to have to continue to show up at municipal court until they get something on their record that ends up putting them in jail. And we know how bad jail is - we know that it increases the chances of overdose. I think this bill kills people - I think that's the bottom line of what this bill does - is that it's going to kill a bunch of people, and make a bunch of people poorer, and do nothing to curb drug addiction, and fill our jails, and just continue the cycle of mass incarceration. [00:26:51] Crystal Fincher: The outcomes from this type of policy are clear. We have so much information about what happens when you do just fund, enable sending people to jail without doing anything to address the root causes for why they're there. Also, there are some people rejoicing over this - like it is going to help - I'll be curious to see their evaluation after a period of time, to see what their perception of what results. But it's just frustrating because we could choose to do what has shown to be effective elsewhere. Everybody is frustrated. I don't think anyone is happy. I don't want to be in a space where someone is using publicly, right? And perhaps inhaling secondhand something or whatever. But I also recognize that generally people who do use in public don't have another place to use. And if it is an issue of - addiction isn't logical, right? Addiction isn't reasonable. It's not - Oh, there are consequences for me going to jail now, so I'm just going to stop being addicted. The thing about addiction is that you can't decide to stop being addicted. It's not up to you. And that people fall into addiction for a variety of reasons. And being addicted is a reality that so many people face - to treat it as like they're less than human for struggling with that particular issue is ridiculous. But we do that from a public safety perspective. And as you said, this is going to largely wind up targeting the homeless - that's usually who this applies to - people. We can talk about the drug habits of executives and rich people, and the rates of drug use are not low across the board. I always find it so curious. We drug test minimum wage and low wage workers, but not high wage executives. I'm pretty confident what results we would see if we did that. There's an interesting video with Sara Nelson - yeah, speaking of politicians using drugs, and then voting on drug ordinances - but Sara Nelson has a place to use privately. That's the difference. [00:28:52] Ashley Nerbovig: Because we're going after public use, we're not going after possession. And the casual way she talks about it - you are aware that you are growing drugs, and you're telling people where to find drugs - and I can hear her argument against this, right? But the point of it is that drugs are not inherently dangerous, and it was incredibly frustrating to watch that video. And then think about the fact that when this was in front of the Public Safety Committee, Mosqueda came out and said - I want to make it very clear that lots of public health agencies at this point have said that breathing in secondhand fentanyl smoke is not dangerous to your health. I am someone who opens a window if someone blows vape smoke too close to me - I don't like it, I don't want that smell, I am not totally convinced that the smell will not linger. But it's like that, right - it's a smell, I'm not worried about getting a nicotine contact high. And the way that fentanyl gets demonized as the worst drug that we've ever seen, it's part of how we can dehumanize the people who are using it. And I think it's so interesting, because if you ask someone to class their own drugs, shrooms and weed and cocaine would be the bourgeoisie of drugs - they're allowed, it's fine - alcohol. All of those things are totally fine. And the people who use them are not degenerates or any way bad. Maybe cocaine. But for the most part, we are totally okay with those kinds of drugs, no matter how alcohol is still one of the most harmful substances in our society. Whenever I call the King County Medical Examiner's Board to get the overdose deaths, it's overdose deaths and deaths due to alcoholism. But they're longer term, right? So I'm not saying that - fentanyl is absolutely killing people - it's in everything. And it is a new, very scary problem because we don't have a ton of ways to treat it. But it doesn't change the fundamentals of what we're seeing, which is you had someone like Sara Nelson who struggled with her own story of addiction. But as soon as it becomes a drug that they view as dirty or not fun to scavenge for, you get this attitude of - We need to crack down on this. And that's how it's got to be a punishment-based system - it's not a conversation, it's not help, it's not treatment - we've got to really show these people the errors, the way to be, and improve their life. And it's just so condescending. [00:31:30] Crystal Fincher: This is the crack playbook at play. And again, to be clear, not at all saying that fentanyl is not very troublesome, problematic, and that we don't want people using that. Those are all true. But to say somehow a unique and unsolvable addiction issue as opposed to opioids, as opposed to all of the other things. The one thing that we know is that there are new drugs created all the time for a variety of things. There's going to be something more potent. Fentanyl is not the last, right? It's just the current. There is going to be a next. We've been playing this cat and mouse game with the War on Drugs, with all that we're doing - it's here. But hearing the language around that is the same tactic that happened with crack, right? And the justification to pass a ton of laws, super harsh penalties, mandating mandatory time, adding it as a strike for possessing crack, lower thresholds for dealing and all of that, as opposed to cocaine, which was used by a different demographic largely and fueled there. This is pretty transparent. And unfortunately, you hear a lot of the rhetoric in public meetings. You hear it from people - Oh man, this fentanyl, these people are like zombies, this is something completely new we haven't seen before. Those are all the same things that they said with crack. Those are all the same things that they say with the new drug that they want to use when they're in the mood to crack down and jail people - here is where we're at. Acting like fentanyl is just - oh, if you're addicted, you're lost, you're hopeless, is untrue. It is a dangerous drug. We need to address it. Public health approaches have a better record of doing that than punitive jail-based approaches. But it's a problem that we do need to get our arms around, but we make it harder to do that when we pursue policies to jail - which are very expensive to do in every single way. And then say - Sorry, we just don't have the resources to provide more treatment services, to provide more behavioral health services, to provide more housing, to provide detox for people. Those are all necessary for us to deal with this problem, and we just aren't doing it. I would like to do it. I would like to meaningfully address this - most people would - but this makes it much harder. I do want to talk about this week, a very important - and for our state historic - trial starting, of the three officers accused of murdering Manny Ellis. What is happening here? [00:33:58] Ashley Nerbovig: Yeah. So they're still in jury selection. It's going to be a long, drawn-out process. I think opening statements start October 2nd. And for people who don't know the case, Manny Ellis was an unarmed Black man who was in Tacoma - this was March before George Floyd's death, and there are so many parallels. Everything that is terrible about George Floyd is terrible in this case. Bob Ferguson comes in, says that he's going to investigate this case, does an investigation. Tacoma Police Department does not cooperate with Washington State Patrol. Washington State Patrol and AG Ferguson ends up creating this probable cause statement and now three officers, three men are all on trial this week. Or the trial is starting and jury selection is starting. And there's one guy who - I can't remember his name now - but he's live tweeting all of it. And there's been some really interesting tidbits. One of the jurors - the judge asked if there were any jurors who might have conflicts presiding over a case involving law enforcement, no one raised their hands, and then the judge looks at this guy and says - But didn't you say you have a brother in law enforcement? And there's no other details, but that's where it's starting right now. And it'll be a really interesting case - it's horrible to see these cases get to this point - and you wonder about, I don't know anything about the disciplinary records of these cops. But yeah, that's where it's starting. And that's the background on it. [00:35:14] Crystal Fincher: And certainly - it's a trial. And I generally try not to follow these things or get emotionally invested in these trials - for good reason - they often don't seem to wind up with justice, and even what is justice when your loved one, someone you care about, a human being is killed. And just also lifting up - we hear about all these cases around the country - we have more than enough here locally. There's another police officer from Auburn currently awaiting trial for killing Jesse Sarey in Auburn. It's really troubling. And we also have family and friends of Manny dealing with this and having to once again hear the horrific details of this killing. And they're continuing to call for the firing of the cops who've been on payroll this entire time, who are still on payroll. There's a GoFundMe for the family. And court is something that people can show up to and show support if they want to do that also. It's a tragedy. And I hope the family is able to find peace and healing and that this can assist with that. I have no idea where they stand on this, but certainly, I'm thinking of them as this trial continues to go on. Last thing I want to talk about today is Seattle City employees rallying for fair pay. Why did this rally happen? [00:36:38] Ashley Nerbovig: Shout out to Hannah Krieg - she got all the great quotes for this one. This rally happened because apparently, and I'm quoting directly from her story - Bruce Harrell is funny, he's a funny guy, and if this is true, I believe it - Mayor Harrell told them to rally their asses off. The City started their negotiations for a pay increase of 1% and has settled on a pay increase of 2%. And the City workers are saying that's an insane way to start negotiations in one of the most expensive cities in the country. She puts this really good stat in there - that's a pay cut as the cost of, a 1% cost of living adjustment or even a 2% cost of living adjustment is a pay cut as the cost of living rose 8.7% this year. It's really important to note that the SPOG contract guarantees at minimum like a 1.5%, I think - I did a little tweet about this - it's plus COLA or something. But effectively, regardless of what their contract says, they have never gone a year without at least a 3% increase. Lieutenants and higher up guilds just got like a 4% increase. Sometimes I'll get these emails from the mayor's office that's - I'm really like unhappy with how you've portrayed us as prioritizing police. We really prioritize like other things too. - and it's, you can see it, where their money is going. So the workers are contract, are striking because they're not getting, at minimum, just keeping up with inflation. And the City of Seattle seems to think this is just like across the board, boy to cut is in general services and for the city. And that's - I really encourage people to follow Hannah's coverage on this because she's really on top of it. [00:38:17] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, it's really challenging. We talked about police saying they have a shortage of officers and all of the action that has been taken to fix that including a retention bonus, healthy retention bonuses. And so we're talking about the shortages in the rest of the city, and it just doesn't seem like there is the interest in making sure the City is able to provide essential services and the level of service for everything that is currently happening and that people expect. There have been several council candidates who have said and agreed with - Yeah, we should be giving City workers the same kind of retention bonuses, investing in their retention, doing something tangible to actually address the shortage here. And we're going to be seeing Mayor Harrell's budget come out pretty soon. It's going to be interesting to see how he deals with that and what it is because a budget is a value statement - that's a document of values - where you're spending your money is what you value the most. And other things - you can talk about them and say they're great, but if you aren't funding them, clearly they were lower on the priority list in your estimation. And he may have his reasons to justify that. But it is disingenuous to say - Oh, I completely prioritize that, I value that, and I'm just not going to fund that while I'm going to fund this other thing. So it will be interesting to see. But it seems like the City has a lot of work to do to start to step up. And everyone on the campaign trail talks about their values and making sure people can live where they work, how important that is to our economy - and it absolutely is important - again, what tangibly is going to be done about that? What are we going to see in that budget? And if not, just what is really the tangible impact of that? So we'll continue to follow that. But certainly workers see some definite red flags there and are rallying to make sure people understand that this is a problem that has consequences for the entire city and beyond. And for all the plans that people say they have, they're going to rely on these employees to execute them. So we better make sure that there are people in place to deliver on the policy that we pass as a city. [00:40:34] Ashley Nerbovig: Yeah, I hope we get a strike. I think it would be good for people to feel what happens when they don't - I think that a lot of these services are invisible. And we already see that SPOG is doing all these sick-outs and they're not responding to calls - and a lot of them are blaming it on the staffing shortages. When you hear about sick-outs, you get a little bit curious about those call response times. I hope it turns into a strike because I think people do need to realize how essential these workers are. [00:41:00] Crystal Fincher: Certainly the public - some people definitely see that, some people definitely don't. But a strike will be a failure, right? We're having a rally because an initial offer was pretty insulting. It was not a serious offer. It's a pay cut. If you're starting saying - Okay, how big a pay cut are you going to take to people who are already short-staffed and overworked? Because really, let's talk about it. When we talk about short staffing, that means that the same amount of work is falling on fewer heads. And that's a hard position to be in - and many of these positions aren't like super high-paid positions anyway. People are struggling to just pay their bills and work is getting harder, and now you're going to ask them to take a pay cut. And being disrespectful when that happens - Okay, go rally your ass off. So I hope there is more respect in this process and that lines of communication open and are productive. Because strikes are disruptive, right? They're not fun, they create a lot of drama. It may come to that - and I absolutely support workers' rights to strike and sometime that's necessary to get the job done - but I hope it doesn't come to that. I hope they are able to talk. But it's going to take more respect from the City perspective, realistically - they just aren't starting in a serious place. [00:42:14] Ashley Nerbovig: Yeah, I like what you said there. It would be a failure. My chaotic evil side is - yeah, disrupt it, show people that you exist and stuff. But you're right. It would suck for these workers to have to go on strike because - the no pay and I'm sure they have a fund - you're 100% correct. What I would actually like to see is Mayor Harrell care about these people the way that he has been so consistently able to show care for our police department. [00:42:44] Crystal Fincher: I completely agree. And with that, we thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks on this Friday, September 22, 2023. The producer of Hacks & Wonks is the incredible Shannon Cheng. Our insightful co-host today was staff writer at The Stranger covering policing, incarceration and the courts, Ashley Nerbovig. You can find Ashley on Twitter at @AshleyNerbovig, A-S-H-L-E-Y N-E-R-B-O-V-I-G. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter at @HacksWonks. You can find me on just about every platform at @finchfrii, that's F-I-N-C-H F-R-I-I. You can catch Hacks & Wonks - wherever you want to listen to us, you can listen to us - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar of your favorite pod player. And be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday week-in-review shows and our Tuesday topical show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen - it really helps us out. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the podcast episode notes. 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Join Tony, Nitin, Max, Tareque, Vaishnavi, and Sameer on ep 89 of the friendliest cricket podcast as they get together with the cup of joy overflowing in Asia, hope of ploy growing for Ash na, the mush room of the Asia cup, the mushrooming of fungi in Dharamsala, fun guys in the Indian dressing room, run up to the world cup and the ODI boom, Shubman Gill's year of centuries, updates on the fear of injuries, and much more. Follow us: Bits and Pieces on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bnp_cricket Tony: https://twitter.com/notytony Nitin: https://twitter.com/knittins Max: https://twitter.com/maxdavinci Tareque: https://twitter.com/tarequelaskar Vaishnavi: https://twitter.com/vaishbhaskaran Sameer: https://twitter.com/sleepyhead148

Time to get your grub on! With a conspiracy so messy, you might have to put your gloves on! It's your favorite golf course sandwich, not a sub. Rub a dub dub it's the 27 club. Rockstars and singers, composers and the like. If you're turning 26, deaths coming down the pike. Pull up a chair and tie of a vein, they couldn't handle 28, so 27 they'll remain. Was it foul play, drowning, running off the road? ODing on substance or did their heart explode? Man or woman and even a drag queen. From long ago to modern times and everywhere between. So take a fun filled slip down a slippery slope. They chose to face death and he wanted all the smoke. Morrison, Hendrix, Cobain in a fine house, Joplin, Johnson and even Amy Winehouse. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ewing-house-studios/support

This week on Dopey! In a knock down drag out new episode we are joined by heroin addict in recovery, Chris Spallina an we hear his crazy journey from totally messed up Junky to recovering fitness guy who works for non proit recovery foundation, and new Dopey Sponsor - The Phoenix! It's all in there; ODing with cops, eating acid and getting busted PLUS much more! PLUS Erin Khar, the return of Fentanyl Jay, CRAZY Dopey emails! and much much more in a brand new episode of the good old Dopey Show! PLUS a brand new home grown Dopey theme song!!!!    More About Dopey: Dopey Podcast is the world's greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy!

Luffy takes on Caeser Clown...again. We meet momo an ODing child gets their stomach pumped and much more on the Island of Punk Hazard.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5492983/advertisement

In 1992 Grunge was the only genre of music on the radio and in college dorms around the US.  Alice in Chains were riding high (literally) on the success of their first album Facelift and hit single Man in a Box. After a successful opening stint with Van Halen and a best selling EP, Sap, Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Mike Starr and Sean Kinney were ready to rise to the top of the grunge/metal scene.But drugs, particularly heroin, were having a detrimental effect on the band which produced an album full of darkness, self-hatred and sickness.  With titles like Sickman, Junkman, Down in a Hole, Hate to Feel, and Godsmack it's obvious Layne Staley is in pain but he delivers some extraordinary performances throughout the record.Selling over 6 million copies with over 6 million singles as well, Alice in Chains couldn't really capitalize on all that success as they couldn't afford to take Layne Staley out on the road for fear of him being arrested or ODing.  Still, with hits like Would?, Them Bones, Angry Chair & Rooster, this record will always be remembered, though it should be seen as a cautionary tale.Ugly American Werewolf in London WebsiteYouTubeTwitterInstagramLInkTreewww.pantheonpodcasts.comCheck out our sponsor RareVinyl.com and use code podcast to save 10% off all orders!Want to win front row seats to Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in the US?Enter here to win tickets and a chance to be on a Pantheon Podcast: https://pantheonpodcasts.com/nickmasonGet tickets here: https://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/

In 1992 Grunge was the only genre of music on the radio and in college dorms around the US.  Alice in Chains were riding high (literally) on the success of their first album Facelift and hit single Man in a Box. After a successful opening stint with Van Halen and a best selling EP, Sap, Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Mike Starr and Sean Kinney were ready to rise to the top of the grunge/metal scene.But drugs, particularly heroin, were having a detrimental effect on the band which produced an album full of darkness, self-hatred and sickness.  With titles like Sickman, Junkman, Down in a Hole, Hate to Feel, and Godsmack it's obvious Layne Staley is in pain but he delivers some extraordinary performances throughout the record.Selling over 6 million copies with over 6 million singles as well, Alice in Chains couldn't really capitalize on all that success as they couldn't afford to take Layne Staley out on the road for fear of him being arrested or ODing.  Still, with hits like Would?, Them Bones, Angry Chair & Rooster, this record will always be remembered, though it should be seen as a cautionary tale.Ugly American Werewolf in London WebsiteYouTubeTwitterInstagramLInkTreewww.pantheonpodcasts.comCheck out our sponsor RareVinyl.com and use code podcast to save 10% off all orders!Want to win front row seats to Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in the US?Enter here to win tickets and a chance to be on a Pantheon Podcast: https://pantheonpodcasts.com/nickmasonGet tickets here: https://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/

Westside Jeff in for Chris Krok today. The Biden Administration declared Monkeypox a public health emergency. How many people have died from it? Is this, like COVID-19, politically motivated? Aren't there more pressing health emergencies out there, like ODing on Fentanyl? Support the show: http://www.wbap.com/chris-krok/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode of Real Talk, KJK Student Defense Attorneys Susan Stone and Kristina Supler are joined by Dr. Beth Weinstock. She is a poet and physician, but foremost a mother of four whose eldest son Eli was murdered in March of 2021 when he unintentionally ingested fentanyl. With her daughter Oliva, they co-founded BirdieLight with a focus on educating students and their parents on the danger of fentanyl. The conversation includes how drug use extends beyond just partying, the stigma around the topic of students using drugs, and how any student can save lives. Links Mentioned In the Show: The BirdieLight Website Dr. Beth Weinstock's interview with Jake Tapper The KJK Website  Show Notes:   What are the dangers college students experience when experimenting with drugs and alcohol? (0:34) How a personal tragedy inspired the creation of the BirdieLight organization. (01:52)  How BirdieLight has created enormous momentum in its mission. (03:21) What is the common misconception of fentanyl that leads to parents underestimating its accessibility? (04:27) How did fentanyl rise to become such a popular drug? (05:05) How even stress and anxiety can indirectly lead to a student's involvement in fentanyl (06:53) What does BirdieLight do to bring young adults “closer to safe”? (09:09) How Dr. Weinstock combats the stigma when shedding light on the reality of fentanyl cases. (11:38) Is BirdieLight having an impact? (14:19) Why high schools are pushing back on BirdieLight's message. (16:48) Telling kids to, “just say no,” isn't going to cut it (17:11) What role does the rampant mental health crisis play in the rise of drug use? (19:21) How students can protect themselves and their friends using test strips to test for fentanyl (21:53) Why carrying Narcan can save lives (23:35) The serendipitous origin of the name BirdieLight (28:47) Transcript: Susan Stone: Welcome back to Real Talk with Susan Stone and Kristina Supler. We're full-time moms and attorneys bringing our student defense legal practice to life with real conversations. Today's topic is really going to be a very emotional topic today. We're here to talk about the fentanyl problem that is really impacting the health, welfare, and lives of students across the country, students and adults. But our practice focuses on what's happening with all students.  Kristina Supler: Susan, over the years, in our cases, we've represented students across the country. And I think we regularly see that particularly college students experimenting with drugs and alcohol it goes hand in hand. And while some students, I don't know, I guess can handle it. I think we also see a lot of students who really struggle with the substance abuse and don't recognize all the dangers that can go hand in hand with ingesting various substances. And I think in particular, one thing that we regularly see is sexual assault cases.  Susan Stone: Correct. We see, and we've talked about this on our podcast, a real uptick in mental health issues. And I don't want to say every case cause that's not accurate, but I think we can fairly say that most cases that we deal with, whether it's about sexual assault or any other form of student misconduct, somewhere in the picture is a use of, or misuse of alcohol or drugs.  Kristina Supler: We hear often from the students we work with that sometimes there's substance use or experimentation with drugs, for numbing and students just exploring life. And that's really what brings us to our topic and our speaker today. So Susan, why don't you do the introduction.  Susan Stone: We're here with Dr. Beth Weinstock who created an organization called BirdieLight to spread awareness about fentanyl use and this crisis that we have of students dying from the use of fentanyl. Dr. Weinstock, welcome to our show. Can you please just highlight what led to you creating your organization?  Dr. Weinstock: Sure. Thanks. And thank you so much for having me on your podcast today. I live in Columbus, Ohio. And I'm a mother and a physician. I have four children. My second oldest child, Eli Weinstock was a sophomore at American university. And on March 3rd, 2021 He took or experimented with some substance a pill or a powder. We're not sure. And he collapsed and died in his off-campus apartment in Washington DC.  Susan Stone: I'm so sorry. Really.  Dr. Weinstock: Thank you. Thank you. He was not struggling with addiction. He was, you know what? Our organization now likes to call an experimental or recreational substance user.  We were devastated. There's really not a lot of words to really explain what happened in my family. But six months later my daughter, Olivia, and I she's 22, and a recent college graduate decided to start an organization called BirdieLight. And the purpose of our organization is real simple. We just get in front of young adults, age 15 to 25, and parents, and we educate on the dangers of fentanyl; where it's found; how to avoid it; how to test for it. We are now four months old and the momentum is enormous. We really have found a niche and a real need in this crisis in our country. And, we aim to educate every young person in America about this crisis.  Kristina Supler: I think for a while now, families have heard on the news, stories about the opioid epidemic. And there have been many stories about fentanyl and it's dangers. However, I know Susan and I from the conversations we have with parents, it's pretty interesting how many parents don't know what fentanyl is. Or just have a belief that only certain populations would face the dangers posed by fentanyls. Oh, it would never touch my child's life. Beth, can you speak to what parents should know about fentanyl and why it's so dangerous?  Dr. Weinstock: Absolutely. So I think 10 years ago that maybe that misconception would have some truth to it. That 10 years ago, fentanyl was mostly found in heroin and mixed with heroin there are lots of people addicted to heroin who would periodically get fentanyl in their drug supply. And as time went on more and more fentanyl was found in heroin and now nearly all heroin has fentanyl in it. As a parent, it's easy to say that happens over there. That's not my kid. That's really a hardcore addiction situation that is not touching my family.  Well, what happened about maybe three years ago is that you started to see fentanyl infiltrating the drug landscape and in so many other ways. So you started to see it in methamphetamine. And then methamphetamine overdoses well, they're called methamphetamine overdoses, but they're actually fentanyl poisoning. Those started to increase. And then soon after that, you started to see it in counterfeit pills that were labeled as oxycodone, hydrocodone Xanax, Adderall, and none of these pills were real. They weren't exactly what they said they were, but they were fake pressed pills that had fentanyl in them. And that only started a few years ago. And that coincided of course, with the start of the COVID pandemic. So it didn't really hit any parent or a student's radar that this was happening because it was happening in real time with the COVID pandemic. And so all of a sudden you're hearing of these young, healthy individuals dying, who didn't have a substance abuse problem who weren't using heroin. And, we're just now catching up. And a lot of parents don't know this information.  Susan Stone: When we think about recreational use of drugs in college or high school, I have to be honest with you. I still think of alcohol and marijuana. And can you talk about what are the other drugs that students are experimenting with that we, as parents should say, we know you could go a party and you might encounter acts because I guess I don't think of Xanax or Adderall as a recreational drug. And we have cases where that's come up. But could you speak to what's really happening at parties.  Dr. Weinstock: Well, I think there's two ways to talk about that. One is not at parties. So for example, if a student, particularly a college student wants to stay up all night and study. That student might ask a friend for an Adderall to be able to do that. That stimulant effect that they're looking for. So that's not necessarily a party drug. But what might happen is that student might say, Hey, do you have an Adderall I can use, but it's not really an Adderall. It was pressed in some guy's basement to look like an Adderall. And it has some fentanyl in it. The other part of that might be the Xanax, the fake Xanax that, a student's struggling with anxiety and wants to get some Xanax off the internet or through Snapchat or on Tik Tok. And they get a Xanax not to party really, but just to manage some anxiety. So that's that environment. But if you go to parties now, I mean, this is the word on the street. I don't have real numbers to back this up, but my understanding is that cocaine has made a huge comeback. It's not at the level at, as it was in the crazy 1980s, but it's here. And lots of kids are experimenting with cocaine. So all of those situations are spots where a kid could be poisoned by fentanyl.  Kristina Supler: I think it's interesting. The comment you've just made the example with Adderall, for example, and students who are up late studying, finishing a paper, seeking that stimulant effect. And I think it's important for parents to recognize that because so often parents have the mindset that my child would never fill in the blank. But in reality, the dangers of fentanyl, aren't just tied to recreational drug use. It can be students using drugs for other reasons that have nothing to do with being at a party and being social. So thank you. I think that was a really poignant example. Tell us, if you could please, a little bit, from what I understand about BirdieLights, the goal of the organization is harm reduction and helping keep young adults safe. And so tell us more about what BirdieLight does to get closer to safe.  Dr. Weinstock: Yeah. And thank you for using that phrase. We like to repeat it many times closer to safe. Because we know that inherent in the act of taking a pill or using cocaine, you're never a hundred percent safe. There's risk inherent in any drug experimentation. So we tell students we want to move you closer to safe by number one, our education. We talk about fentanyl in a real sort of in the weeds way. We talk about how it's found in cocaine and what pressed pills look like and what to do if you're going to use ecstasy at an outdoor music concert. I mean, we really get in the weeds with this. Then we talk about what fentanyl does to your body and how it can be reversed by Narcan. Because it is an opioid. It's a synthetic opioid but it's still an opioid. And then lastly, we talk about fentanyl test strips and we pass them out to students and to parents. And what we do is we teach them how to use the test strip. And we talk about how to use it with each type of drug. And then they leave wherever we are in front of them. Speaking, we leave them with test strips or information on how to get them.  Susan Stone: I want to circle back to something that Kristina brought up. My child would never, and that really resonates with both of us because what you wouldn't know, Dr. Weinstock is that we travel all around the country, talking about sexual assault and prevention of sexual assault. We actually hear it from both sides. We hear, parents tell us my son would never violate issues of consent. We hear us parents of daughters saying my daughter would never put herself in a position. And we've had a lot of pushback over the years in our endeavor to say that we deal with this every day. How do you at BirdieLight deal with the blinder issue or the, just the prevailing attitude out there that, oh my gosh. I'm so sorry. That must have happened to you. I'm going to put my head under a rock because it couldn't happen to me cause that dissonance  Kristina Supler: Every day we hear it. Susan Stone: Every day we hear it. And it's so hard for us to be we've changed our talk a million times and we still run against that same wall.  Dr. Weinstock: I love that question. And there's different ways in which we've run up against that pushback. One of which is I find that when I talk to people about Eli, and as soon as I bring up the word fentanyl, There's a stigma. Right? And so the assumption is that Eli struggled with substance abuse and opioid substance use disorder. And that would never happen to my kid.   The first thing I try to do is to talk about fentanyl in a way that reduces that stigma. I don't know if I could ever get rid of it completely. But I try to stress to parents particularly about the numbers. And I always use comparisons because it works. I tell people, at the height of the aids epidemic and the worst year of the aids epidemic, we lost 50,000 people to HIV just last year alone. In 12 months, we lost a hundred thousand people to opioids. Over three quarters of which were due to fentanyl. Okay. So I try to do comparisons. I say, on the entire Vietnam war Memorial wall in Washington, DC, there's about 50,000 names for an entire war. And so what I try to stress is that this is not a substance use disorder problem. This is an American problem. And it's going to affect you one way or the other. You're going to know someone and God forbid it ever happens to you. I never thought it would happen to me. But we all know someone who's been touched by this. So I try to reduce stigma initially. And then I also try to quote things. I try to tell parents, listen, I've been to schools and I've talked to students, college students, particularly, and I asked them, do you know someone, or have you seen someone trying cocaine? Or have you yourself tried cocaine? And one out of three kids say yes to those answers. I'm not saying one out of three are using. I'm saying that they've been near or have seen cocaine. So one out of three. So we're looking at an opportunity, not just to educate kids who may never use drugs, but also to educate the ones who are using. So if a parent says to me, my kid would never, I say, but your kid might never, but your kid might be in a room where they could save a life. It might be in a room where they see a pill or some powder, and they could say, Hey, wait guys, before you do that, let's test it. So that I think that reaches parents. If their kid can be the one that saves a life.  Kristina Supler: The idea is students of all ages, perhaps being in a setting and even if the student him or herself, doesn't experiment with substances at all, this idea that you've mentioned about seeing others who are engaging in snorting cocaine, for example, it's just sad. Let me ask you, I wonder because teenagers have developing brains, teenagers can be spontaneous. Especially boys often we see them with ADHD after hearing the message of BirdieLights, our young adults or students really are they pulling out the test strips? Do they actually think to use them before injecting, snorting, consuming any type of drug? Dr. Weinstock: Well, that data on the ground is hard to gather and us being relatively new, we don't have large numbers just yet. We have anecdotal reports. We do know that, for girls who were about to use ecstasy at a music concert, did use our strips and found fentanyl and threw their drugs away. I do know that some boys that live on campus at OSU called me and said, can you bring us some strips because we're going to do Coke. And I brought it to them. I do know that we do surveys to every group we speak to. And the students always say, as they're leaving, they do our anonymous survey and say that they plan to change their behavior based on what we've told them. But the data gathering is hard. On our strips, we have a QR code that says. In a really like a pleading way. If you use this strip, please fill out our survey because we need to know if what we're doing is working. And that data is real small. It's rare that a college student would stop and fill out a survey as they're about to test or use drugs. But over time we hope to gather more and more data in the moment. You know, just anecdotally I can only speak to the students we've spoken to. And the truth is they're scared. They know that this landscape is a minefield and they're scared and they want our strips. They want our education. Are we going to reach everyone and have them change their behavior? Probably not. But piecemeal, we hope to go one by one. Save as many lives as we can.  Susan Stone: Have you received any push back? I'm thinking about your story, about someone from OSU calling you asking for a strip, because they're doing cocaine saying that rather than giving them the strip, you should have said, don't do the cocaine. Dr. Weinstock: I haven't received pushback in that scenario because I'm dealing one-on-one with the young adults. But I've received a little pushback from high schools and high school administration. In the sense of, asking me, how do we tell kids just say no to drugs at the same time, we're telling them how to test their drugs. My only answer really is that the numbers don't lie. You know, data doesn't lie. And if this many kids between the age of 15 and 24 are dying, then our message isn't working. Our message of just say no to drugs is not working. There are lives being lost and I try to point out to administrators that I can tell young adults not to use drugs because of the inherent risk. And I can tell them Eli's story. I had the biggest risk, the biggest loss. And I can say, this is what happened. My son also received the message for years of just say no to drugs. So the numbers don't lie. And I know that's one of the fears of high schools that we're sort of giving a mixed message. But I think it's okay to give both of those messages in parallel. Susan Stone: We work a lot in parallel. Because our practice primarily focuses on sex issues. What are you going to do? Tell kids not to have sex in college? And Christina, how many times do we deal with kids who are high and having intercourse? Or drunk and then saying they were incapacitated.  Kristina Supler: Yeah, I think that's actually a very good analogy, Susan, that might hit some of our listeners is frankly bizarre. But I think the reality is with substance abuse or sexual activity, we have good feedback from our practical experiences in our cases. Beth, as you point out, look at the data and the numbers and fentanyl. Don't do it that strict prohibitive message just doesn't seem to be working. And so the question is, what is the message that we should be advancing to our kids to help keep them safer? I suspect many of our parents and listeners might really say, wait a minute, this BirdieLight, is it in fact promoting drug use? But I think it's really important that parents think, really think about what your messages Beth at BirdieLight, and then also think about their own children and their own life experiences. And just reflect. And I like the idea of the language getting closer to safe. Because I think it's a concept that has application to so many different issues that high schoolers, college students, young adults face.  Susan Stone: My thought is that we're also facing a mental health epidemic that we've never seen. The surgeon general just put out an advisory that we are in a national health crisis when it comes to mental health. And I guess Dr. Weinstock, I would like an opinion as to our students with mental health issues, not properly being medicated. And would that alleviate a need for students to turn to something like street xanax. If their anxiety and depression were being addressed properly by more healthcare practitioners. Dr. Weinstock: Absolutely. I, I work in healthcare. So I see the deficits when it comes to mental health support access to care. And of course it's geographic, or it depends what area of the country you're in. Or if you live near a big medical center wait lists are so long right now. So we have an access to care problem. And obviously this has been an ongoing debate. But we have a health insurance problem in our country. So this mental health crisis Is a big one to tackle. But I do want to point out though that I do not advocate in any sense that a young adult take a medicine or a pill that they weren't prescribed such as a Xanax and Adderall, a Percocet, hydrocodone, oxycodone. There's no way that that's a good idea. As we know, you should only take pills that have been prescribed to you and put in a bottle by a pharmacist. However, I want to point out that an intelligent kid can learn either through their own parents' use of pharmaceuticals or on the internet that a person who takes a Xanax or an Adderall or a hydrocodone or oxycodone is not going to die. So let's say I'm 15 and I'm so anxious. I can't go to school in the morning and my friend gives me a Xanax they got off the internet. You can research that online and learn for yourself that if I take a Xanax, I'm not going to die. That's the difference is that we don't just have a, sort of a recreational drug use opioid problem. This is a poisoning problem. So what alarms me about this situation is that we can solve the mental health crisis in incremental doses, which is, you know such a big thing to tackle. But if you're the risk is so vast. If you're just going to take what you assume to be illegal prescription pill, that by itself has never killed anyone. And you're going to die from that. I mean, that is a risk model that is, is catastrophic, right? So we're not just dealing with an opioid substance use crisis in our country or a mental health crisis. We're dealing with a poisoning crisis. That's what the alarming thing.  Kristina Supler: Poisoning referring to the fentanyl. Tell us a little bit how the test strips work in conjunction with a substance that might be a pill or something that's snorted. How does one use these test strips?  Susan Stone: And does it work with injectable drugs? Dr. Weinstock: It will. It will work with anything that is in liquid. So basically you have to take a part of the cocaine you're about to use and dissolve it in a little shot glass size a container of water. And you can dissolve it and test it. There's very specific instructions. For example, if you have a bag of cocaine, you should test it multiple times before you use it because the fentanyl can be distributed in different parts of the bag. If you're about to take a pill, you can dissolve the pill in that water and test it with the strip and then you actually drink the water. You know, because it's a pill it's going to hit your stomach soon anyways, so it's okay to drink it. That way you test the whole pill and not just a segment of it. And then you can also, for example, if you're cooking injectable drugs, you can take some residue off the cooker and put some water on it and test that. So there's very different instructions for each drug. And when I speak to students I go into those specifics. For example, I haven't gotten in front of a big high school system yet, and there's some pushback there on discussion of the test strips in detail. So perhaps for a high school audience, I wouldn't get into details on how to test. Cooker, the residue on your cooker, there, you have to know your audience. So I tailor what I speak to regarding what group I'm in front of. Right now I mostly speak to high school students in small private groups rather than in front of a big auditorium.  Susan Stone: Well, we'd quite the team. You talk about drugs and we would talk about sex. I think we just need a musician to talk about rock and roll trifecta. What about Narcan? I have to tell you, I asked Christina this morning. My vision of Narcan was from like bad seventies movies of someone, ODing and them like plugging an epi pen. Is that still what it is? Or has it evolved?  Dr. Weinstock: Oh, so much Narcan is so widespread now and so easily used it's it's a nasal spray. At least the kind you would get for a use out in the community. It's an easily used nasal spray.  Susan Stone: That's just what Kristine just said my go-to source for everything is my law partner.  Kristina Supler: And correct me if I'm wrong. Just, I think this is useful information for our listeners as well. Most communities have public health departments where one can obtain Narcan for free, correct? Or is that something that only you don't have to be an EMS worker or law enforcement to have narcan, right?  Dr. Weinstock: No. No, you can get it in any pharmacy without a prescription.  It's a great act of citizenry to carry Narcan with you. And a lot of college students do that. They pass out Narcan on college campuses. And you'll talk to some students who say, well, I carry Narcan. I don't use any substances. But I carry it with me just in case. It's really a lifesaving tool. And if you're going to be at a party where people are using drugs, I would talk to all of your kids. Have Narcan, know where it is. And one of our goals with BirdieLight is to make Narcan and fentanyl test strips so commonplace that it just seems like it's the first aid kit in the, hallway closet. You always know where the test strips and the Narcan are. And if every college campus, every dorm, every fraternity and sorority had these two tools just sitting there for use. And it was common conversation to learn how to use them. The lot number of lives that would be saved would be remarkable.  Susan Stone: We had the privilege of watching your interview with Jake Tapper. You did an amazing job, Dr. Weinstock. We learned that Kratom was also found in Eli's body. I did. I had confess, I didn't know what that was. Can you discuss that? Because my understanding when I did a little bit of research is that it's a legal substance.  Dr. Weinstock: It is yeah. Kratom is an herbal supplement. That's legal and Eli had two substances in his system. One was Kratom and one was fentanyl. I don't know any more than that. So for example, I try not to get too sidetracked on the Kratom issue because the number of people that die from Kratom ingestion and fentanyl is minuscule. And so really focusing on that would take a lot of attention away from the vaster crisis, which really has not a lot to do with fentanyl. But either Eli took some Kratom that someone along the way had laced with fentanyl.  Or Eli was given a pill that he thought was something else. Either a Xanax or whatever he thought it was. And instead of having those ingredients in it, it had Kratom and fentanyl in it. But he, with his pathology only had two substances in his body create them and fentanyl. But we just don't know the vehicle as to how he ingested it. Susan Stone: Well, that was my thought. Are people putting fentanyl in vitamins or something else?  Kristina Supler: I was actually just thinking as I was listening. I think we, we represent a lot of college athletes and at various times we've had students who have hit different bumps in the road with the student disciplinary proceedings because of essentially bodybuilding drugs and stuff that has been ordered off the internet from overseas. And they think they're getting one thing, but it's a powder and who knows what's in it? Would these test strips, perhaps be a good idea to use with something like some sort of supplements that's ordered off the internet or something like that. Again, just to make sure that it's not poison.  Susan Stone: We were mind melding there. Cause we had the same question at the same time.  Dr. Weinstock: There's no data or research to say that that would be useful. It's not something that's been reported. That bodybuilding supplements would have fentanyl in them. I would say that anytime you order something and you're not real clear on where it's coming from or who's regulating it. There's always some inherent risk. One of the problems would be, for example, if you've got a bodybuilding powder and it was a jar, like a large jar is how would you test it? Fentanyl is lethal. It's such a small dose. And so in a large jar of powder protein supplement, you would have to check the entire jar. And that would take lots of strips, so I guess I can't speak to it because it's not an issue that's come up or something that's ever been recommended.  Kristina Supler: I read a grain of fentanyl. That's like a grain of sand can be lethal. Is that correct?  Dr. Weinstock: Well, it's a little more than that. Like if you took a salt shaker and put enough salt in your hand to fill the very center indentation, they say 12 to 15 grains of salt that's a lethal dose for most people.  The lethal dose is a little different if you're accustomed to opioids. If you take them frequently.  Kristina Supler: Oh, that's interesting.  Dr. Weinstock: Yeah.  Susan Stone: Have a quick question about the name BirdieLight. We couldn't help but notice that Eli's name is almost in the middle. We see the Eli. How did you arrive at that name? Dr. Weinstock: Well, we came up with some other like generic sounding names, like save one life and that kind of thing. But we wanted it to be more personal. And Eli's buddies in eighth grade they had a band of boys that ran around and they called themselves The Birdies. I don't know the origin of that. But it was always very cute. And then at his Memorial service, a bunch of those boys men now wrote a letters on the tables we had spread in our backyard. They wrote letters to birdie. So we thought we would use that. And also at the same time, I started thinking about a bird and the Canary in the coal mine concept of how the Canary went down to, to test the air first in a coal mine. And, and I thought of that as the test strip, you know, the Canary in the coal mine. Our logo has a yellow bird with a canary, I'm sorry, a miner's lamp on its head. And so we called it BirdieLight and I'm not really making this up at all, is that we looked at BirdieLight after we wrote it down. And then we said, wait a minute. Eli's name is in the middle of it. And so it was just serendipitous. We had a couple of people say, you should change your name because BirdieLight doesn't say what you're doing. Yelp and Uber's name, doesn't say what they're doing either. But the name means a lot to us.  Susan Stone: To our listeners out there, I who can't see my face, I think that the hair on the back of my neck was just raised and I I'm stopping some tears. That is stunning. And don't you change that name.  Kristina Supler: I don't get a vote, but if I did that is really compelling.  Susan Stone: Thank you so much. This is really been incredibly informative. And I think that you've shared a lot of really important information that our listeners can reflect on and then have conversations with their own children. So thank you so much.  And to our listeners, thank you for listening to Real Talk with Susan and Kristina. If you enjoyed this episode, please do subscribe to our show so that you never miss an episode. And leave us a review so that others can find the content we share here.  You can follow us on Instagram. Just search for our handles Stone Supler and for more resources, visit us online at studentdefense.Kjk.com. Thank you so much for being a part of our Real Talk community and we'll see you next time.

#947: We are back with Jon Acuff, the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his most recent, Soundtracks, The Surprising Solution To Overthinking, which we had a deep conversation about in episode 945. In this episode we dig into his habits for success, which as you heard in his intro, include keeping queso out of the house, which I completely understand. I have a friend who calls it liquid love and I'm prone to ODing on it as well. This references my friend Ben Hardy's book, “Willpower Doesn't Work” and the reality that our willpower is finite and instead of relying on it to not eat all the queso, we set up our environment for success and just not have it available. Listen in as I ask Jon about his primary habits following the Ziglar Wheel of Life, and you can get Jon's new book Soundtracks wherever you get books and connect further with him at acuff.me. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being perceived, ODing on Soul Cycle, the definition of cheugy, and the chronicles of being a waiter. Brooke and Cameron gasp and cackle with singer, songwriter, and producer, Matthew Hammond.Follow Matthew on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matttthewhammmmond/Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewsscreamsListen to Matthew's Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5J27wSg02oOE69Sj9CwyiD?si=DwC_L1ikRReX5LO3sHLFaA---Please SUBSCRIBE/RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on IG @bisexualdiariespod and email us your diary entires at bisexualdiariespod@gmail.com.WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Call us at (323) 332-9367‬. Leave us a voicemail with your name (if you want) and a question or diary entry.Check out https://www.bisexualdiaries.com/ for more information.FOLLOW BROOKE:https://www.instagram.com/ilikerainbows/FOLLOW CAMERON:https://www.instagram.com/cam.escalante/★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our guest this episode is Andrew Oding, Director of Building Science at Building Knowledge Canada talking about trends and direction of residential property development. If you enjoy this episode, share it with friends and give us a review, it helps more than you know. In this episode, we discuss: “Dragged out inertia” The importance of […]

Building trainer and specialist Andrew Oding joins us this week to talk about the building science missing link in programs and codes - and why basements are a bad idea!  With an extensive background as a builder for 20+ years Andrew brings a real-life practicality to building science principles and their in-field applications. An engaging speaker and industry recognized leader, Andrew and the BKC team works with over 350+ builder clients across N. America . As a recognized building science trainer by the government of Canada-Office of Energy Efficiency, Building Science Specialist (University of Toronto), and HVAC designer(HRAI), is working closely with the development of the new National Building Code of Canada: 2020 Proposed tiered code -Standing Committee on Energy Efficiency in Housing and Building, the re-development of ASHRAE 90.2 SSPC Energy efficiency standard for low-rise residential buildings. 90.2 and many advanced building programs (i.e. ENERGY STAR®, Net Zero Homestm, LEED for HomesTM, etc.) across North America The Conscious Builder Website: www.theconsciousbuilder.com  The Conscious Builder on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeThir3L7kgmChWyHnKBWVw  The Conscious Builder on Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_conscious_builder/ 

Chris Merrill in for John & Ken. Chris talks about the bodycam footage of a San Diego cop coming into contact with fentanyl and ODing on the spot but was saved by his partner. Chris talks about how Apple is going to start scanning phones for child porn. Chris talks about how the details of the Corona movie theater shooting are getting weirder and weirder. Chris talks about a woman carrying an AK47 driving around in San Francisco.

It's the dumpster fire you love to hate. We're back and this week we are talking about online “D”ating. This topic has people scattered across the entire spectrum; from sneaky escorts to married with children. And what about building a dating profile? I have some top DO NOTs for you to consider... and by consider, I mean, don't f*cking do it. We'll talk about which dating app you should be on if I just want to hook up vs. if you're actually serious about finding Mr. Right. Plus, how to avoid getting catfished, some real life soulmate stats, and more. Come frolic with me while we talk about the dirty little world of ODing. Please share, subscribe, follow, and/or review if you enjoy this podcast so I can keep bringing you these weekly little pleasures. Find me on IG @kristi_eide. xoxo 

My guest today is Bushra Azhar, The Queen of Persuasion. She believes that human beings are irrational and trying to persuade someone through a rational argument is like trying to stop a 5-year-old from ODing on M&Ms by recounting the evils of high fructose corn syrup. She is a self-made multi-millionaire and an international bestselling author on Selling & Consumer Behavior. She teaches tiny businesses how to make big bucks, using the Psychology of Persuasion and her students have used her persuasion hacks to make millions of dollars in 50+ different industries while slashing their ad spend by 80%. Here’s a sample of what you’ll hear on this episode: How Bushra went from being a self-made multimillionaire and a best-selling author on sales & consumer behavior The importance to go deep and not wide in your business The magic behind Bushra’s ability to get repeat customers again and again How Bushra deals with trolls on the internet And because this is a patriarchy smashing podcast, we talked about the meaning of Bushra’s name (yes, it has something to do with patriarchy) and how Bushra has time and again bucked the system. Get in touch with Bushra here - https://www.thepersuasionrevolution.com/about/ Find Deepshikha here - https://www.instagram.com/deepshikhasairam/ Follow along The Deep End Project  - https://socialiquegroupe.com/blog/

Have you ever heard of ‘Competitive Erotic Fanfiction’? Do you think I’m making it up? I’m not, but the guy who actually did make it up, then bring it to life, is this week’s guest Bryan Cook! He’s a hilariously wonderful curmudgeon of a man who I’ve spent many a nights after shows floating down a river of booze on a four way kayak with. We get to jabberjawing in this episode (WARNING: His story has a mention of someone ODing). He’s a redhead with the temper of a blondie, and these days he’s a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live! Here are five words to describe this episode: roommate's boyfriend should wear pants. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know what they say about a pill addiction like... six episodes ago? Pierce has to end up ODing and spending time in the hospital in this episode. He then proceeds to torture everybody. LeVar Burton shows up. We talk about Colorado ghost towns, our love of Donald Glover's performance, whether the PS5 or the XBox is cooler and which ones are owned by people who are cool and have sex. Ben doesn't know how to talk to celebrities. Mike googles for condos in Colorado.

Comedian/beatboxer/med school drop out Usama Siddiquee talks about "Nein Eleven", How America's Got Talent is like an open mic and almost ODing on bagels. Laura teaches us how to pick up German flight attendants. Aladdin wore Spanx.

Today Travis talks about the opioid crisis, doctor shopping, ODing, and several other topics. We hope you will listen. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wiley-walker/message

The Hake Report, Tuesday, November 17, 2020  Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand, Build Back Better, with females and LGBTQ and anti-whites. Labor = commie = anarchist like Graeber (sp) SCAM-demic! ODing, Obesity, new normal, Thxgiving, Xmas… Election MESS: 2600 uncounted ballots, ⅔ for Trump. Will PA ballot certification be blocked in court today? Dominion in bed w/ gov't, Clinton Foundation, Pelosi staffer Social Media is sick: FB, Twitter… Opening: Harry Styles not the only one. Lil Nas X making out with himself in photo.  Also check out Hake News from today.  CALLERS Russ from Virginia is James' male Maze… His phone's messed up.  Earl from Michigan argues with James.  Back to Russ… Russ and James yell at each other, and James keeps him on a bit long.  Skip from Augusta, GA really doesn't understand many blacks; he talks Covid and work.  Maze from Dayton, OH asks why James ignores whites but lumps blacks with criminals.  Carl from Tennessee will send James a tip on Jeffrey D.; Joe Biden is a commie! (Far-left "fact checkers" deny the "Three Red Banners" reference but you recognize a tree by its fruit!)  Mary from San Antonio, TX hopes President Trump beats this suspected election fraud.  Jason from Long Island, NY says James is too nice (weak) to Earl, Maze, etc. Trick from Montana thinks that the world will suffer in Johannesburg, South Africa falls TIME STAMPS 0:00 What I'll cover 5:41 Let's get started 8:02 Confederate tee 12:16 Jacinda Ardern 20:28 David Graeber 29:00 Super Chats: Fraud 34:54 Super Chats: Reparations? 41:27 False start with Russ 43:44 Earl from MI 53:50 Russ from VA 1:06:38 More Super Chats 1:08:46 Break!  1:11:45 Scam-demic fallout 1:15:49 Skip in Augusta, GA 1:25:56 Maze in Dayton, OH 1:36:56 Yet more Super Chats 1:38:21 Carl in TN 1:43:38 Mary in San Antonio, TX 1:49:50 Obama social media 1:52:44 Jason in Long Island, NY 1:57:08 Trick in MT 2:00:34 Thanks, all!  HAKE LINKS VIDEO ARCHIVE: Facebook | Periscope/Twitter | YouTube | Audio podcast links below LIVE VIDEO: DLive | Periscope | Facebook | YouTube* | Twitch*  PODCAST: Apple | Podcast Addict | Castbox | Stitcher | Spotify | Amazon | PodBean | Google … SUPPORT: SubscribeStar | Patreon | Teespring | SUPER CHAT: Streamlabs | DLive  Call in! 888-775-3773, live Monday through Friday 9 AM (Los Angeles) https://thehakereport.com/show  Also see Hake News from JLP's show today.  *NOTE: YouTube and Twitch have both censored James's content on their platforms lately, over fake "Community Guidelines" violations.  BLOG POST: https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2020/11/17/111720-tue-commies-destroy-and-build-back-better-lots-of-calls 

THIS WEEK!! We bring you tales from the DMV, tales about the plight of a fish, tales of a man who takes way too much Prevagen, and finally, the somewhat melancholy tale of how the phrase "Just like riding a bike" came to be. ENJOY!

What happens when your electronic medical records (EMR) system, housing thousands of patient records, suffers, from a sickness of its own? A sickness known as a mapping error? In 2003, that’s exactly what happened at St. Mary’s Mercy Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And guess what happened? 8,500 patients “died.” Well no, not really. Patients who had procedures done from October 25 through December 11 of the previous year “died” according to a glitch in the hospital’s patient management system. Oops. Good news: They were not dead! Bad news: The system still thought they were dead. And treated them that way. And that system told other systems. Jeremy and Alyssa examine the very real-world consequences of this coding error. How could this happen? Could it happen again? Tune in to find out.

On this episode, we talk about the dude who ODd on Black Licorice!!  Also, what Decorations you may have that used to be ALIVE!!   Things we overthink, plus you'll be SHOCKED by how much money some actors get paid PER WORD!!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Di episode kali Oding dan Daniel akan membahas topik yang menarik dan penting bagi anak muda yaitu tentang "Mencari Pasangan Hidup yang tepat dan sesuai dengan Firman Tuhan bersama dengan narasumber yang akan sharing langsung dari pengalaman pribadinya yaitu Bang Lukas..

Di episode kali ini Cindy dan Oding akan membahas tentang tips agar tetap Connect dengan Tuhan meskipun kesibukan mulai melanda. Pastinya dengan narasumber yang merasakan langsung di kesehariannya, bersama dengan Ka Michelia.

Apakah kamu bosan dirumah terus ? dan apakah kamu masih bingung tentang New Normal ? Dalam episode kali ini Andi Kuray, Oding dan Daniel Pande akan membahas tentang "New Normal" dan apa yang harusnya anak muda lakukan di masa New Normal ini.

Meskipun dari lahir sudah kristen tapi apakah kita sudah sungguh-sungguh mengikut Tuhan ? Apa yang bisa kita lakukan untuk mendapat panggilanNya ? Dalam episode ini Andi Kuray, Oding dan Daniel Pande akan membahas "panggilan" Tuhan bagi anak muda dan gimana caranya mendapatkan nya bersama dengan Ka Shenny yang akan sharing tentang pengalamannya.

Net Zero? R-2000? Passive House? What are some ways to pick between the different better construction standards available today? This week we discuss this and more with Andrew Oding, Vice President and Director of Building Science at Building Knowledge Canada Inc.

In this episode of the Simply Smart Business Show, Gemma is joined by Bushra Azhar to talk about using the psychology of persuasion in business, recurring revenue engines, micro launch models and the pitfalls of growing to 7 figures so quickly (including how ‘fluke thinking' cost her thousands of dollars).   7-Figure Females is a mini-series on The Simply Smart Business Show where I set out to bust some myths around creating a 7-figure business as a female business owner, understand what it truly takes to get there, and inspire you to aim high. More on Bushra here:  Bushra Azhar believes that human beings are irrational and trying to persuade someone through a rational argument is like trying to stop a 5-year-old from ODing on M&Ms by recounting the evils of high fructose corn syrup. She is a Persuasion Strategist and Founder of The Persuasion Revolution, where tiny businesses make big bucks, using the Psychology of Persuasion. She started The Persuasion Revolution in July 2014 and managed to go from an absolute nobody with zero connections and subzero sales to $5M+ in sales and a buyer list of 8,000+ in less than 5 years.   Find out more here: https://www.thepersuasionrevolution.com/ For more simple smart strategies and business inspiration, find Gemma here: http://gemmawent.co.uk/

The Chronicles return once again this week. A little Easter treat for you. I am joined by my brostest with the mostest, DANA WESSEL! You know we always have a great time when we turn on the mics. We talk all sorts of random stuff. The Office, OD'ing on Vitamin C, the current chicken wing surplus in our country, and so much more!!

Garret Fear reveals a shocking life of being fascinated by drugs at 5, a 2 pack a day smoker by 12, and OD'ing on heroin at 15, while being one of 17 children and living off food stamps. Fear gives the facts about PED use, why Larry Wheels S's instagram's D and may die within 5 years, who won't be in the game soon, and much more cold-hard-truth in the wildest, rawest, podcast episode ever! 6 Pack Lapadat and Robbie Little also discuss if Bruce Lee was a phoney and how A.I. is going to kill us all!

Although I spent years working in and around Hollywood, I don’t have a lot of actors or industry folks on the show. But I am really interested in the physical, mental, and emotional preparation that goes into preparing for these huge projects because, in a lot of ways, that parallels my own work in the wellness and biohacking space. It’s also not often that you get an actor who wants to geek out about all of these lifestyle and spirit hacks quite as much as our guest today, Carrie-Anne Moss. Her IMDB reads like a short novel, but a lot of us know her best from playing Trinity in The Matrix, a movie that also has a lot of surprising parallels to my work and this show. Not because I hang out with Keanu Reeves or do mind-bending martial arts, although I do usually wear sunglasses, but because so many of us today are constantly confronted with “red pill moments” — those moments when you realize that the reality you have been accepting as fact is just a facsimile of your perceptions, malleable and impermanent. It was a surprisingly prescient action flick when it came out in 1999, and Carrie-Anne really helps us explore why those themes are so relevant to the great awakening we can see happening in society today and what we can learn about living from this awareness.  Listening to that awareness allowed Carrie-Anne to step into her calling to connect with women by creating Annapurna Living, a platform and portal for growth and nourishment, especially for women and mothers who want to find their voice and to step into their grace. If you’ve never heard her talk outside of a role, you might be surprised by how much wisdom she has to share. And hey, this episode also serves as a great excuse to watch The Matrix again!   Topics Discussed In This Episode: What it was like training for The Matrix and what it’s like to be training again for The Matrix 4 A generation of children being raised by parents looking at their phones When you hand your child a phone, you’re handing them an addiction We’re in the middle of a beautiful awakening (with some growing pains) Choosing where and how to create boundaries for your private life when you’re a public figure Red pill moments you only experience as a mother Introspective interrogation about why you’re doing what you’re doing that everyone should practice Saying no to opportunities that don’t align with your principles and intentions, even when there’s a lot of money on the line How Shirley McLaine became Carrie-Anne’s first spiritual mentor Realizing that you can choose to believe whatever you want Rejecting desperation How podcasts can make you look forward to driving Intentionally creating your community How shows and movies can serve as self-care Learning to make room for your feelings, for yourself and your family Where you’re being triggered, there’s pain Why every single person would benefit from Kundalini teacher training — even more so than high school, Carrie-Anne says The unequal and disrespectful ways women are treated by many doctors and the medical system, especially pregnant women The wonder of witnessing a really good midwife Facing the realities of both coming into the world and leaving the world What Carrie-Anne has learned from 20 years of marriage The inner work of parenting   More about this episode. Watch it on YouTube   Connect with Luke on social media to learn how to take your lifestyle to the next level, plus catch exclusive live interviews & events: INSTAGRAM - @lukestorey // https://www.instagram.com/lukestorey/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MrLukeStorey/ TWITTER - @MrLukeStorey // https://twitter.com/MRLUKESTOREY YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeStorey THIS SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ORGANIFI. I'm loving Organifi Gold, especially for my night time routine. It has turmeric, ginger, reishi, lemon balm, turkey tail and other rad superfoods, phytonutrients & pain-soothing herbs. My daily routine lately goes like this: in the morning I add it to my nut milk smoothie. At night when I want to chill out, I make a golden latte. I add the power and a healthy fat like ghee, coconut, or grass-fed butter to hot water and voilá! Great warm elixir, really chills you out, gently detoxifies and tastes awesome. Save 20% using code “LIFESTYLIST” at organifi.com/luke. AND... 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Wynford Dore was an incredibly successful businessman, founding two multi-million dollar businesses as a young man. But when his daughter was nine years old, she was diagnosed with dyslexia and told that this was just the way life would be moving forward. She became increasingly depressed, eventually attempting to take her own life. So, 20 years ago, Wynford sold his businesses, bought the latest neurological testing equipment developed for NASA, and recruited therapists, doctors, and medical researchers to dive deep into how our brains develop — and why, sometimes, they don’t. They transformed the lives of 45,000 children and adults, including Wynford’s daughter, and the world’s media started reporting on the success. You might be thinking to yourself right now, “But wait, I’ve never heard of a treatment for these learning disabilities” — and you’re right. Because the medical and educational industries didn’t react kindly to the introduction of drug-free, highly effective methodologies for addressing chronic and highly lucrative problems.  Wynford was forced to close many of his clinics and he sold the remaining ones. For 18 months, he thought he had failed in his life purpose. But Wynford got a second wind. He wasn’t done leaving his mark on the world yet. Because he started to realize that the brain-related challenges that blight so many lives are also masking enormous potential. His vision became clear — to create a way for children, adults, athletes, and the elderly to develop key brain skills while also becoming emotionally robust.  So he founded Zing Performance, a brain development program conducting breakthrough research to address the root cause of reading issues and other learning difficulties. And in his latest book, Stop Struggling in School, he fiercely attacks the use of labels to describe learning difficulties while preaching hope to the increasing number of totally misunderstood children and adults. Wynford’s story is incredible, showing that one person with passion, a willingness to keep pushing forward, and the truth can stand up to entire industries that want to keep making money at the expense of human lives. We need more people like Wynford in the world, and I’m grateful that I can help us take even a small step closer to Wynford’s vision by sharing his story on the show. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Just about every problem we face begins in the brain Biohacking breakthroughs discovered by Zing Performance How we can help both autistic and aging populations by leveraging new information about how the brain develops Wynford’s personal experience as a parent of a child with learning disabilities “Learn to live with it” — words that go with far too many medical diagnoses out of pure ignorance What we aren’t taught about the cerebellum in school, what Wynford has learned that can transform lives, and the mysteries that we still haven’t uncovered How Wynford used NASA’s equipment to learn more about brain development The benefits of repairing your cerebellum that anybody can benefit from There are so many exciting breakthroughs in medical research happening right now... but depressingly little money being invested in them Neurofeedback research and the Peak Brain Institute How confusion and misunderstanding around ADHD, ADD, dyslexia, and other learning disabilities hold back and hurt so many kids — and the problem with labeling them in the first place The relationship between alcohol and the cerebellum How our cerebellum affects our experience of life, for better or for worse How brain development can make you a better lover Good news for anyone who’s experienced significant trauma What the Zing Performance program looks like & how long it will take you to see the results of kickstarting your cerebellum Wynford’s unique brand of spirituality   More about this episode. Watch it on YouTube   Connect with Luke on social media to learn how to take your lifestyle to the next level, plus catch exclusive live interviews & events: INSTAGRAM - @lukestorey // https://www.instagram.com/lukestorey/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MrLukeStorey/ TWITTER - @MrLukeStorey // https://twitter.com/MRLUKESTOREY YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeStorey   THIS SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: CANDOR. Having these long and deep conversations requires an intense amount of focus, and sometimes I try to use coffee to help me stay alert. But sometimes I get a little too hyped — and, honestly, it’s because I’m straight up ODing on caffeine (you can learn more about your relationship with caffeine, you can check out Candor’s Caffeine Type Quiz). So I was stoked to find Candor, who make this delicious Coconut Matcha Nootropic Latte. It still has a little bit of caffeine, but combined with ingredients like green tea l-theanine, which is clinically proven to boost attention and mood when paired with caffeine. You can use code ‘LIFESTYLIST’ to get 10% off your new favorite coffee at ChooseCandor.com. AND… RA OPTICS. These Blue Blocking glasses are the premium level protection for sleep and health. They block the entire harmful blue spectrum and even most green up to 550nm to preserve your most powerful agent of health: melatonin. Ra Optics uses the highest quality lens technology in the most attractive frames on the market. This means you can wear them out in public at night and feel confident in both your style and the knowledge that you're preserving the one thing that determines health above all others: quality sleep. You can save 10% on your pair of blue-blocking glasses using the code “lifestylist” at raoptics.com. AND... LAMBS. We all know that we’re surrounded by cell signals and wifi all the time, and there’s two areas of your body that are most susceptible to radiation: your brain and your reproductive organs. I’ve talked a lot about the danger of EMFs and how you can protect yourself — while staying sane — and Lambs is making it easier than ever. Because Lambs has radiation-proof underwear that will keep your most vulnerable bits safe, without making you uncomfortable or look uncool, and a beanie that can protect your dome. I threw out all of my underwear and this is all I wear now. You can get 20% off using the code THELIFESTYLIST at GetLambs.com.   HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW! Love the Show? Youʻll really love Lukeʻs Master Market Online Store!  It’s a win/win! Get direct links to all of Luke’s hand-picked biohacking and health products all in one place, get exclusive discounts, and support the show by making purchases through the web store >> SHOP NOW. 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An old proverb says, “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.” Really, this is why I started this podcast in the first place. My goal for the past few years has been reversing all the damage that Young Luke did to this meat suit and healing the scars left in my subconscious that continue to undermine my life and success — and only a fool would try to do that alone. That’s also why I created The Life Stylist Podcast Facebook Group. Not because I consider myself wise counsel, but because this group is stacked with some extremely experienced biohackers, forward thinkers, and spiritual seekers that can help answer just about any question you or I might have. But I have learned a few things from the experts I talk to on this show and I’m still researching new biohacks, methodologies, and spiritual practices almost every single day, and I love sharing what I’m experimenting with and what’s working for me. So, today I’m going to answer a few more questions from the group. Kate is struggling with the transition from corporate life to the entrepreneur life and she’s trying to get more clarity by doing some inner work, Hannah wants to know more about my favorite supplements, and Ryan is curious about some of the things I do routinely to optimize my health, outside of my daily routine. I have so much fun doing these episodes and I can’t thank you all enough for making this such a badass, inquisitive tribe. If you have any questions that you want to ask the group or you want to be answered on a future episode, come join us!   Topics Discussed In This Episode: The transformative potential of a 10-day zen meditation retreat My experience on a 21-day silent retreat (that I cheated on a little bit) Why Byron Katie’s The Work is one of the first things I’d recommend to anyone looking inward One of the most transformative, psychedelic experiences you can have, without taking any psychedelics The experience of Kundalini & why you shouldn’t be scared away by all the white clothes Your options for plant medicine retreats & ongoing medical research on the benefits of psychedelics My favorite question from A Course in Miracles  The root of spiritual advancement There’s more to 12-step programs than you might be aware of The wisdom of David R. Hawkins, one of my favorite spiritual thought leaders A new biohack I’ve discovered recently — Dynamic Neural Retraining System (DNRS) by Annie Hopper — and how it’s helped transform my dad’s life What you can learn from Vedic and Transcendental meditation practices The ONE supplement I’d take for the rest of my life (if I had to choose) Naturally creating your own Vitamin D Why I’ll probably be in therapy for the rest of my life (and why that’s a good thing)   More about this episode. Connect with Luke on social media to learn how to take your lifestyle to the next level, plus catch exclusive live interviews & events: INSTAGRAM - @lukestorey // https://www.instagram.com/lukestorey/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MrLukeStorey/ TWITTER - @MrLukeStorey // https://twitter.com/MRLUKESTOREY YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeStorey   THIS SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: JUST THRIVE. Imagine this: a probiotic that actually does what it is supposed to do! I’ve tried so many different supplements, and when you find the right one — the one that really works — it’s like winning the lottery. So I was psyched when I tried Just Thrive Probiotic, the first and only spore-based probiotics and antioxidants. Their products have been the subject of groundbreaking clinical studies and demonstrated incomparable effects on the gut, even healing leaky gut. It’s super simple and it just works. You can use code ‘luke15’ for 15% off at www.thriveprobiotic.com/luke. AND... RA OPTICS. These Blue Blocking glasses are the premium level protection for sleep and health. They block the entire harmful blue spectrum and even most green up to 550nm to preserve your most powerful agent of health: melatonin. Ra Optics uses the highest quality lens technology in the most attractive frames on the market. This means you can wear them out in public at night and feel confident in both your style and the knowledge that you're preserving the one thing that determines health above all others: quality sleep. You can save 10% on your pair of blue blocking glasses using the code “lifestylist” at raoptics.com. AND… CANDOR. Having these long and deep conversations requires an intense amount of focus, and sometimes I try to use coffee to help me stay alert. But sometimes I get a little too hyped — and, honestly, it’s because I’m straight up ODing on caffeine (you can learn more about your relationship with caffeine, you can check out Candor’s Caffeine Type Quiz). So I was stoked to find Candor, who make this delicious Coconut Matcha Nootropic Latte. It still has a little bit of caffeine, but combined with ingredients like green tea l-theanine, which is clinically proven to boost attention and mood when paired with caffeine. You can use code ‘LIFESTYLIST’ to get 10% off your new favorite coffee at ChooseCandor.com. HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW! Love the Show? Youʻll really love Lukeʻs Master Market Online Store!  It’s a win/win! Get direct links to all of Luke’s hand-picked biohacking and health products all in one place, get exclusive discounts, and support the show by making purchases through the web store >> SHOP NOW. Other ways to support:  SUBSCRIBE >> Apple Podcasts + Stitcher + Google Podcasts + Spotify LEAVE APPLE PODCASTS REVIEW >> Simple step-by-step instructions SHARE >> Spread the word! Tell your family, friends, neighbors, and all your social pals

The last time I talked to John Gray — author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus — we had an incredible conversation about his spiritual journey... before we turned on the microphone! So, when I had a chance to sit down with John at the Health Optimisation Summit, I wasn’t going to miss my second opportunity to record some of these stories.  From partying at Woodstock, to hanging out with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to participating in an energy healing practice that saved someone from a fresh cobra bite, we explore the twists and turns of John’s spiritual journey and how it has influenced his work on sex and relationships. And there’s a lot more overlap there than you might think. Because, whether you’re seeking to nurture your personal relationship or do the inner work to foster the relationship with yourself, your goal is ultimately the same: transformation, peace, and fulfillment. This is a peek into the life of a man who has helped thousands of people radically transform their lives, and it offers a lot of insight into how anyone can apply these spiritual principles and universal truths in really practical ways.   Topics Discussed In This Episode: How The Beatles deeply influenced John’s journey, including the meditation practice that he teaches today The high stakes of following your inspiration and genius Most of your suffering comes from too much attention — but John knows how we can stop internalizing all of that negative energy and bring in fresh energy Why most people avoid opportunities, consciously or subconsciously Lessons John learned as the assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Witnessing the seemingly unexplainable People who do exceptional things aren’t born that way — anyone can develop exceptional abilities with practice How you can channel energy into and out of your body (and when you might want to) A mantra that will help you start noticing the gap between your thoughts and your self Everyone has access to all of the masculine and feminine qualities Spiritual practices for grounding yourself in the feminine or the masculine What everyone needs to know about intention and attachment If you’re angry, you’re not being masculine How masculine individuals can better communicate with feminine individuals & vice versa Some good ol’ fashioned biohacking: the one supplement that everyone can benefit from but barely anyone talks about & the enzymatic shake will fuel your brain How better brain health leads to more enjoyable sex + other tips men can use to increase pleasure for themselves and their partners   More about this episode. Watch it on YouTube Connect with Luke on social media to learn how to take your lifestyle to the next level, plus catch exclusive live interviews & events: INSTAGRAM - @lukestorey // https://www.instagram.com/lukestorey/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MrLukeStorey/ TWITTER - @MrLukeStorey // https://twitter.com/MRLUKESTOREY YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeStorey   THIS SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: RA OPTICS. These Blue Blocking glasses are the premium level protection for sleep and health. They block the entire harmful blue spectrum and even most green up to 550nm to preserve your most powerful agent of health: melatonin. Ra Optics uses the highest quality lens technology in the most attractive frames on the market. This means you can wear them out in public at night and feel confident in both your style and the knowledge that you're preserving the one thing that determines health above all others: quality sleep. You can save 10% on your pair of blue-blocking glasses using the code “lifestylist” at raoptics.com. AND... CANDOR. Having these long and deep conversations requires an intense amount of focus, and sometimes I try to use coffee to help me stay alert. But sometimes I get a little too hyped — and, honestly, it’s because I’m straight up ODing on caffeine (you can learn more about your relationship with caffeine, you can check out Candor’s Caffeine Type Quiz). So I was stoked to find Candor, who make this delicious Coconut Matcha Nootropic Latte. It still has a little bit of caffeine, but combined with ingredients like green tea l-theanine, which is clinically proven to boost attention and mood when paired with caffeine. You can use code ‘LIFESTYLIST’ to get 10% off your new favorite coffee at ChooseCandor.com. AND… JOOVV. If you’ve been listening for a while or following Luke on social media, you’ve probably seen him raving about red light therapy, or photobiomodulation. There are over 3000 published clinical papers on light therapy – over 200 being double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled – making this arguably the most well-researched bio hack in Luke’s arsenal. Some of the benefits include increased skin health, better muscle recovery, better sexual performance, and reduced joint pain and inflammation. So you can see why Luke is so into it... and why all of his friends keep coming over to use his Joovv device! If you are ready to get your own Joovv device + a FREE gift, head over to Joovv.com/luke and enter the code “LUKE” at checkout.   HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW! Love the Show? Youʻll really love Lukeʻs Master Market Online Store!  It’s a win/win! Get direct links to all of Luke’s hand-picked biohacking and health products all in one place, get exclusive discounts, and support the show by making purchases through the web store >> SHOP NOW. 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A few years ago, I heard about some people drinking this new coffee loaded with butter, and I thought it was one of the craziest health fads ever. How could loading up on cholesterol and caffeine be good for you? But then I did a little research, ordered some coffee, and my life was forever changed. The coffee, of course, was Bulletproof, and this high-fat diet business is clearly a lot more than a fad. And after investing more than $1M over a twenty-year single-minded crusade to upgrade the human being using every available technology, Dave Asprey, the man behind the coffee, is still asking himself the same question: What are the simplest, most effective ways you can be better at everything you do as a human being? And, lately, Dave’s been finding answers to this question by turning inward. So, today, Dave Asprey is going to share what he’s learned about the inner work of biohacking; what you can do to upgrade not just your body, but your mind and very existence. Are you ready to start living better?   Topics Discussed In This Episode: How the exercise industry has made exercise more and more confusing — and what we can learn by looking at the history of exercise Overcoming biohacking obsessions to focus on your core intention How to know if you’re suffering from mold exposure, a condition that affects far more people than are aware of it What biohackers should know about their cellular-level placebo response The evolution of 40 Years of Zen & biohacking with neurofeedback How anyone can change their mindset and the way they experience life by doing deep, personal work — and the data to show it works What you can do to double, even triple, the duration of your deep sleep What we can learn from taking a systems approach to aging The bulletproof plan to age backward (and maybe even live forever) The four things that are most likely to kill you Why “dirty keto” doesn’t work Maintaining the seven pillars of aging in your body What vegans will love in Dave’s new book Why corn-fed beef shouldn’t even be considered food   More about this episode. Watch it on YouTube Connect with Luke on social media to learn how to take your lifestyle to the next level, plus catch exclusive live interviews & events: INSTAGRAM - @lukestorey // https://www.instagram.com/lukestorey/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MrLukeStorey/ TWITTER - @MrLukeStorey // https://twitter.com/MRLUKESTOREY YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeStorey   THIS SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: RA OPTICS. These Blue Blocking glasses are the premium level protection for sleep and health. They block the entire harmful blue spectrum and even most green up to 550nm to preserve your most powerful agent of health: melatonin. Ra Optics uses the highest quality lens technology in the most attractive frames on the market. This means you can wear them out in public at night and feel confident in both your style and the knowledge that you're preserving the one thing that determines health above all others: quality sleep. You can save 10% on your pair of blue blocking glasses using the code “lifestylist” at raoptics.com. AND... JUST THRIVE. Imagine this: a probiotic that actually does what it is supposed to do! I’ve tried so many different supplements, and when you find the right one — the one that really works — it’s like winning the lottery. So I was psyched when I tried Just Thrive Probiotic, the first and only spore-based probiotics and antioxidants. Their products have been the subject of groundbreaking clinical studies and demonstrated incomparable effects on the gut, even healing leaky gut. It’s super simple and it just works. You can use code ‘luke15’ for 15% off at www.thriveprobiotic.com/luke. AND… CANDOR. Having these long and deep conversations requires an intense amount of focus, and sometimes I try to use coffee to help me stay alert. But sometimes I get a little too hyped — and, honestly, it’s because I’m straight up ODing on caffeine (you can learn more about your relationship with caffeine, you can check out Candor’s Caffeine Type Quiz). So I was stoked to find Candor, who make this delicious Coconut Matcha Nootropic Latte. It still has a little bit of caffeine, but combined with ingredients like green tea l-theanine, which is clinically proven to boost attention and mood when paired with caffeine. You can use code ‘LIFESTYLIST’ to get 10% off your new favorite coffee at ChooseCandor.com. HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW! Love the Show? Youʻll really love Lukeʻs Master Market Online Store!  It’s a win/win! Get direct links to all of Luke’s hand-picked biohacking and health products all in one place, get exclusive discounts, and support the show by making purchases through the web store >> SHOP NOW. Other ways to support:  SUBSCRIBE >> Apple Podcasts + Stitcher + Google Podcasts + Spotify LEAVE APPLE PODCASTS REVIEW >> Simple step-by-step instructions SHARE >> Spread the word! Tell your family, friends, neighbors, and all your social pals

In this episode our special guest, Reid, talks about his struggle with addiction and loss of friends along the way. Paired with war stories and whats life like for him today. Todays episode is full of tragedy, strength and laughter.

Over the past 232 episodes, I’ve been your host and guide through the worlds of biohacking, spirituality, and personal development, asking some of the most profound and cutting-edge thought leaders out there what makes them tick — but, today, we’re flipping the tables. Because past guest (and next week’s guest) Matt Maruca invited me to Rick Rubin’s world-famous Shangri-La studios, a recording studio used by the likes of Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Pete Townshend, Joe Cocker, Billy Preston, Ronnie Wood, Weezer, Metallica, and Kings of Leon. It was an honor to record at these same mics, a brief but welcome return to my rockin’ roots. Matt invited me here to ask me some questions about my past, my trauma, my healing, and my future. I’ve talked about a lot of this before, but I’ve been looking at my life, and the experience of life in general, differently over the past few months; I have more awareness and presence than I had even just a year ago, and I’m still learning new things about myself and the world every day. So, today, I invite you into my life, into my mind, to learn what makes The Lifestylist tick. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Tetragrammaton: a four-letter sacred symbol; a way of saying God without saying God, as used in the Old Testament Becoming a child drug addict and then teenage rockstar during a dark period of Hollywood How drugs quite possibly saved my life — and how the process of overcoming drug addiction lead to The Lifestylist Going from simulating life to experiencing life Why I feel more high now, sober, than at any other point in my life There are no mistakes on the road to self-mastery — only lessons and teachers Escaping the physical symptoms of poor health and wellness Your trauma is valid Why I’ve been celibate for more than a year Who’s the one watching your thoughts? Why we may not need to eat vegetables No one wants to look like shit The art and energy behind fashion Podcasting as a personal growth vehicle   More about this episode.   Connect with Luke on social media to learn how to take your lifestyle to the next level, plus catch exclusive live interviews & events: INSTAGRAM - @lukestorey // https://www.instagram.com/lukestorey/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MrLukeStorey/ TWITTER - @MrLukeStorey // https://twitter.com/MRLUKESTOREY YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeStorey   THIS SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: JOOVV. If you’ve been listening for a while or following Luke on social media, you’ve probably seen him raving about red light therapy, or photobiomodulation. There are over 3000 published clinical papers on light therapy – over 200 being double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled – making this arguably the most well-researched bio hack in Luke’s arsenal. Some of the benefits include increased skin health, better muscle recovery, better sexual performance, and reduced joint pain and inflammation. So you can see why Luke is so into it... and why all of his friends keep coming over to use his Joovv device! If you are ready to get your own Joovv device + a FREE gift, head over to Joovv.com/luke and enter the code “LUKE” at checkout. AND... CANDOR. Having these long and deep conversations requires an intense amount of focus, and sometimes I try to use coffee to help me stay alert. But sometimes I get a little too hyped — and, honestly, it’s because I’m straight up ODing on caffeine (you can learn more about your relationship with cafeeine, you can check out Candor’s Caffeine Type Quiz). So I was stoked to find Candor, who make this delicious Coconut Matcha Nootropic Latte. It still has a little bit of caffeine, but combined with ingredients like green tea l-theanine, which is clinically proven to boost attention and mood when paired with caffeine. You can use code ‘LIFESTYLIST’ to get 10% off your new favorite coffee at ChooseCandor.com. AND… RA OPTICS. These Blue Blocking glasses are the premium level protection for sleep and health. They block the entire harmful blue spectrum and even most green up to 550nm to preserve your most powerful agent of health: melatonin. Ra Optics uses the highest quality lens technology in the most attractive frames on the market. This means you can wear them out in public at night and feel confident in both your style and the knowledge that you're preserving the one thing that determines health above all others: quality sleep. You can save 10% on your pair of blue blocking glasses using the code “lifestylist” at raoptics.com.   HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW! Love the Show? Youʻll really love Lukeʻs Master Market Online Store!  It’s a win/win! Get direct links to all of Luke’s hand-picked biohacking and health products all in one place, get exclusive discounts, and support the show by making purchases through the web store >> SHOP NOW. Other ways to support:  SUBSCRIBE >> Apple Podcasts + Stitcher + Google Podcasts + Spotify LEAVE APPLE PODCASTS REVIEW >> Simple step-by-step instructions SHARE >> Spread the word! Tell your family, friends, neighbors, and all your social pals

Things that annoy you. Smoking kills. Mike Leach teaches a class. Are college kids ODing on tuna? The chicken sandwich saga continues...

Things that annoy you. Smoking kills. Mike Leach teaches a class. Are college kids ODing on tuna? The chicken sandwich saga continues...

Learn how to close portals and lock down your astral projects. Ryan checks in with his cosmic accountant. Angela manifests her happiest place. Ryan will never watch Babadook. Angela will never recover from Nightingale. Angela and Ryan share a major psychic connection that’s kind of gross. Ryan is done ODing his adrenal gland. Angela discovers something her fae won’t mess with. Ryan’s getting jacked and renaming wifebeaters. Angela’s soul cluster rallies the spirit world. Ryan begins his lizard quest. Are demons hot for your body? Do aliens leave devices inside you? Is pot or alcohol best for opening your more private portals? Learn all of this, plus how to join our secret society and Patreon! WhereTheMagickHappens.com Become a patron to watch us record, participate in movie parties and book club, hear secret bonus content, and so much more at: Patreon.com/Wherethemagickhappens Send a screenshot of your written 5-star review to WhereMagickHappens@gmail.com for a chance to win a free psychic phone or Skype audio reading from Angela! Email your letter to Angela for the chance to have it featured anonymously in her new column/podcast for magickal life advice. Visit Witchypoo.com for details. Follow us on IG: instagram.com/WhereMagickHappens, instagram.com/lovellable, instagram.com/rysing Join our private Facebook group to share memes, discuss magick, and make fun of Ryan for loving Garth Brooks: www.facebook.com/groups/2360142514242628/ Shop over 50 original designs in our merch and join our mailing list at: WhereTheMagickHappens.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wherethemagickhappens/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wherethemagickhappens/support

Garret Fear reveals a shocking life of being fascinated by drugs at 5, a 2 pack a day smoker by 12, and OD'ing on heroin at 15, while being one of 17 children and living off food stamps. Fear gives the facts about PED use, why Larry Wheels S's instagram's D and may die within 5 years, who won't be in the game soon, and much more cold-hard-truth in the wildest, rawest, podcast episode ever! 6 Pack Lapadat and Robbie Little also discuss if Bruce Lee was a phoney and how A.I. is going to kill us all!

This week Ken welcomes BACK to the show (after appearing on a live edition at last year's Women in Comedy festival) comedian Erin Maguire. Ken and Erin discuss Ken's odd carnival prizes, East Coast anxiety, Psychic Storefronts, Arlington mobs, lottery studio, accents, nicknames, The Winter Hill Gang, SATs, five and dime stores, Boston's WHDH kid's show "Ready to Go", New Kids on the Block, Heathcliff, The Three Stooges, Roof Kids, Scott Grimes, two gingers, Night Life, Joey McIntire, Spenser Gifts, The Meadow Glen Mall, airbrushed sweatshirts, Wild Cards, Orange Julius, citrus cankers, Papa Gino's, dangerous childhood birthday parties, carving stations, ODing on Horse Radish, make up mirrors, California Games, the KenCade, surfing, Kathy Griffin's haircut, Matthew Broderick, Bay Coven, Halloween, Space Camp, aliases, day drinking, bars, no Irish food, The Storyteller, Jim Henson, Pam Dobber, Newhart, Maddie Grimes, Moonlighting, The 'burbs, Cheers, Night Court, the best episode of Highway to Heaven, Stoogemania, Ken's African Grey, the Curly Shuffle, anxiety, exercise, cultural movements, latex, tribute acts, Zima, dropping Jolly Ranchers, Disney Monster Hits, circuses, Emma Samms' unfolding flower, and how Ken's dog Larry is a NARC for kisses.

Rob switches it up and enjoys some Kombucha. He then talks about almost OD'ing on Brussel Sprouts and explains the origin of Kombucha, it was first made by a deadhead named Frank. 

We've been talking about Napoleon Hill's wildly popular self-help book, Think and Grow Rich, for the past few weeks, but whatever we make of the text itself, the question remains: Does this stuff actually work? So this week we've got a treat for you – our guest, the brilliant poet and writer JJ Bitters, tells us exactly what happened to him when he decided to spend a whole year doing everythingNapoleon Hill instructs us to do! First of all, JJ used it to battle depression, but this specific goal swiftly evolved into a much greater journey. After years of OD'ing on self-help books and being frustrated by the lack of results, JJ's Think and Grow Richadventure rapidly eroded his natural scepticism and confronted him with a series of seemingly impossible coincidences and surprises. Or, as he puts it, weird shit started happening pretty damn quickly! We try to make sense of what happened to JJ throughout that year and, in the process, we explain how affirmations really canwork, what cultivating a MasterMind group means in practice, and how to drink your own kool aid without doing yourself serious damage. In a sense, JJ created his own belief system, but that always comes with enormous risks. He went through crises of faith, anger, and more depression; he realised he was becoming unhealthily focused on money at the cost of his happiness. But, ultimately, his Think and Grow Richexperiment fostered positive behavioural and emotional change, and left him a better person than when he began. If we could pick just one takeaway from this awesome conversation, it's that all self-help should be used as a tool, not as a religion.   More from JJ Bitters: JJ's beautiful Instagrampage JJ's fundamental affirmation: 'I love life, I love myself, and I love all others' Including: Making affirmations for what you dowant, rather than what you don't Developing a healthy relationship with money The best day of JJ's life When Napoleon Hill interviewed the Devil Blacking out with Rick and Morty Get In Touch! We'll be chatting about the episode on our Facebook Discussion Group And you can find us on Instagramand Twitter Or email us: hello@voicesinthedark.world   Be Silly. Be Kind. Be Weird.

Persuading Your Way to More Money   Bushra Azhar believes that human beings are irrational, and trying to persuade someone through a rational argument is like trying to stop a five-year-old from OD'ing on M&M's by recounting the evils of high fructose corn syrup. She is a Persuasion Strategist and Founder of The Persuasion Revolution, where tiny businesses make big bucks, using Psychology of Persuasion.     Questions You'll Hear Today:    How do you build a list of buyers? How do you get your first sale? How do you launch your first product? Where do you find your people? How do you make your first $10K? How do you launch with no list?     Connect with Bushra Azhar:   Twitter:  @bushraazhar Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/persuasionrevolution/ Website:  https://www.thepersuasionrevolution.com Book: Mass Persuasion Method YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bushraazhar1 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bushra-azhar-1562a511/       BizWiz Links   TurnkeyPodcast.com - You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. Podcast Production, Concept to Launch   Book Doug and/or Strick as a speaker at your upcoming event.   Amazon #1 Best-Selling Book Nice Guys Finish First. Doug's Business Building Bootcamp (10 Module Course)   Survey: Take our short survey so The Nice Guys know what you like.     Partner Links: Amazon.com: Click before buying anything. Help support the podcast.   Interview Valet:  Get interviewed on top podcasts and share your message.   Acuity Scheduling: Stop wasting time going back and forth scheduling appointments    Social Quant- Boost your Twitter following the right way. Targeted reach   Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.     

Jesus & Sammy discuss past Desmadre projects in detail. Jesus talks about his own filmmaking and the technological advances he's seen in the last 15+ years. He also talks about almost ODing on Nyquil to get over a cold.

We Love This Is Love! | Hannalyze This: Is it okay to feel crappy and grateful at the same time? | Do we need to keep gratitude journals? Do seals keep gratitude journals? No? Then no. | Are we in the Middle of a Rudeness Epidemic? | Yes. | On Drugs | Apparently the Mormans are ODing like crazy | Dear Prudence: Are you allowed to ask your host, when staying with them, to do drastic things to their household? | How to not be a terrible guest | What is really wrong with this family seriously there is something going on.

It's episode 6.  I'm 4 days off of caffeine, I like a girl and I may have saved a crackhead from ODing in a coffee shop bathroom.  There's two guests this episode.  The first is my friend and rising comedian Robbie.  I thought he was 5 months clean off crystal meth, turns out I was mistaken.  He talks about his mental condition, trying to kill his best friend and how he plans on staying clean this time.  Also fantastic comedian Chris Locke tries to quit chips for the month of May. 

I have been doing pilates for 3 months and still can't get abs, what can I do? ✔ 5:28 What do you feed your dog? ✔ 8:37 Are the fats in dark chocolate good? ✔ 10:26 Are there some exercises you should or should not do while on your period? ✔ 12:43 What do you eat for comfort food? ✔ 15:01 If my macros are on point will substituting protein powder for protein from food improve my results? ✔ 16:30 What do you think of MyProtein Total Nutri Greens? ✔ 19:50 I look bony but with some fat, don't know if I should lower my body fat%?? ✔ 24:04 How often can I drink BCAA's when building muscle? ✔ 29:05 Have you heard about Vince Gironda's steak and eggs diet?

According to the Ohio Poverty Report (released Feb. 2016), the counties with the highest poverty rates were Athens, Adams, Scioto, Pike, Jackson, and Meigs, ranging from 31.6 (Athens) to 23%. This episode's guest explains how Appalachian Ohio has always relied on the "kindness of others" to survive. Aaron, Susan, Atish, and Allison discuss the humanity behind saving opioid overdose victims from themselves with Naloxone. #457SEO is place for stories, information, and observations about our Southeast Ohio communities.

William Desmond Taylor was a big deal. A director in the pre-talkie era of Hollywood, Taylor was a giant in the film industry. He worked with the likes of the greats of that time: Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford, Jack Pickford, Wallace Reed, and Douglas MacLean.  In February of 1922, the houseman found William Desmond Taylor murdered. He had been shot to death, and the resulting furor over his passing went well beyond the tabloids of the era. In context, the murder of William Desmond Taylor was yet another bargaining chip for the growing moral majority of the time period to argue against films as a valid form of creative expression directed at the youth of America. See, Hollywood -- Tinseltown, as it was widely known -- was not the innocent place one might imagine. There were plenty of scandals, even back in the Roaring Twenties. Not only did you have the death of William Desmond Taylor, but there was also the Fatty Arbuckle rape trial to contend with. Stars were going to secret rehabs to dry out of their cocaine addictions. People were ODing and ending up cast aside.  It was a wild time. And William Desmond Taylor's murder was at the center of it all. To make matters worse, the crime was never officially solved, so this podcast episode is all to do with the unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor. However, there's a twist to this story that I would rather not spoil for the casual listener. It's the thing that makes this particular Hollywood murder something of an anomaly, and it's almost fit to be put on screen. The William Desmond Taylor book from which I've drawn most of my research is, of course, William J. Mann's 'Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood.' It is a fantastically-researched book, on par, in my opinion, with Erik Larson's 'Devil in the White City.'

SUP YO! This is Ice and The Face #116 -7.23.16- and it is here to pump your butt cheeks full up with the fix-a-flat of truth! Tonight, Sarah and Rick buckle up their snake skin boots, munch down a whole container of creatine chews, wear the most darling tutus you ever saw, and flex their pecks at such mind-obliterating topics as: Dining and dashing whilst leaving junior behind, picking up any random grandkid from school, syrup steam, romantic tribbing, lips and poor decisions, shirtless dudes in clubs, puking whilst saying your vows, pregnancy surprises, OD'ing twice in one night, troubling usage of jalapenos, DIY testicle surgery, and a whole lot more! Thank you all very much for listening! #HilarityOverFeelings #PodernFamily IceAndTheFace.com Patreon.com/IceandTheFace Twitter.com/IceandTheFace Facebook.com/IceandTheFace --------------------------------- AwesomeTalkTV.com Facebook.com/AwesomeTalkOnline Twitter.com/AwesomeTalkTV Instagram.com/AwesomeTalkTV --------------------------------- Youtube.com/HomeBarProductions Facebook.com/HomeBarProductions

EVERYONE IS A JERK. Watch as Ryan bullies Luke, Marissa gets made fun of for OD'ing, Seth calls Anna a lesbian, and Jimmy actually shows some backbone. Truly these are dark times. Also, Luke cries.

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Gunstaband Mix: 01. Friction feat. Josh Barry - Freak VIP 02. Spillage & Dealt Fairly - Take Me Home 03. Feint feat. Laura Brehm - We Won't Be Alone 04. Slander & Nghtmre - You 05. Proxima - Crane 06. Aaronic - Riot Mode >> Serum - Chicken Head 07. Karma - Dance 08. Rene LaVice feat. BullySongs - Don't Look Down 09. Kroks - Archangel 10. Blackman & Vegapunk - Control *EXCLUSIVE* 11. Spillage & Dealt Fairly - Neptune 12. Kid Hops, Iris & Quadrant - Angular 13. Chris.SU - The Universe (F.A.T.E. Part 2) 14. Pythius - Executor 15. Noisestorm - Heist Oding S Guest Mix: 01. Pendulum - Slam 02. Freestylers feat. RDX - Rude Bwoy (Aphrodite Remix) 03. Future Prophecies - Dreadlock (Serial Killaz & Run Tingz Cru Remix) 04. James Marvel feat. MC Mota - Way Of The Warrior 05. Netsky - Rio 06. Bl4ck Owlz - Boogie Balls 07. Dirtyphonics feat. Matt Rose - Power Now 08. Inward, Hanzo & Randie - Stutter 09. The Clamps - Nerves 10. Trei - Seeds VIP 11. Сalyx & Teebee feat. Doctor - Where We Go 12. Tantrum Desire - Pump 13. Gammer & Whizzkid - Love You Everyday (Intraspekt Remix) 14. Moderat - Bad Kingdom (BTK D&B Bootleg) 15. Machine Code - Solar Core 16. Stanton Warriors feat. Laura Steel - The One (Danny Byrd Remix) 17. Document One - Follow Me 18. Colossus, Howl & JML - Amour

Donovan Patrick Mahoney wasn't afraid to venture into our Downtown East Side studios. It's a neighbourhood he spent a lot of time in during his years as a heroin addict. He tells us his harrowing tale, from childhood to OD'ing to getting clean and getting into comedy. This episode brought to you by 9Lives.

В этом волшебном часе вас ждет: Future Jungle Breaks set от  Krizzz, интервью с легендарным промоутером, организатором первых "MAYDAY", "BREAKS ARENA" и в наше время "Shake&Break" вечеринок, идеологом промогруппы "Vertigo" Стасом Одингом (Dj Oding S) и диджеем, в прошлом первым ведущим Trackpoint Breaks Podcast , постоянным участником самых ярких ломаных вечеринок - Сашей Nanobug (Санкт-Петербург).Далее вы окунетесь в историю breaks культуры через второй выпуск Break Beat Basket Hip Parad, посвященный английскому трио Koma & Bones. Весь праздник завершится эксклюзивным, гостевым миксом от Terry Hooligan | UK. Trackpoint Podcast Tracklist: 1.Kid Digital ft. Profit - Done With That (Original Mix) 2.VENT - Crystalite (Davip + Place 2b + Paimon Remix) 3. Mike Rigler, Coppa - Back For Real(Ben & Lex Remix) >>> Deekline, Ed Solo feat DJ Assault - Gimme (Viro Rob Analyze remix) 4.B-Phreak - X-Static (Afghan Headspin Remix) >>>Refracture - Redemption (Refracture's Ravey Redub) 5.Davip + Place 2b + Paimon - Sistema (Original Mix) >>> Stanton Warriors - Shoot Me Down feat. Ruby Goe (Pyramid Remix) 6.Aquasky ft. Didjelirium - Small World (Original Mix) >>> Affinity / Pendulum feat. Freestylers / Freestylers - Break / Fasten Your Seatbelt / The Slammer 7.Moguai, Fatboy Slim - Ya Mama (Push The Tempo) (Moguai Remix) >>> Bass and Funk - Extreme (Original_Mix) 8.INSa - Redlight Get out my Head (241 Bootylishus mix) >>> Guerilla Tech - We Try (Original Mix) >>> Emalkay - Keep Goin On (Original Mix) 9.Aquasky - Stardust Ft.Roisin Brophy (Original Mix) 10.Jeff Mills - Changes Of Life (Kid Chameleon Remix) Break Beat Basket Hit Parad ft. Koma & Bones Track List вы можете посмотреть на официальной странице ведущей breaks ветки Krizzz по адресу : http://djkrizzz.pdj.ru/ Exclusive Guest mix Mix by Terry Hooligan | UK Track List: 1. Terry Hooligan Ft. Genesis Elijah – Nat Turner 2. Terry Hooligan – Rumpa Pumpa (With Lil Kim accapella) 3. Terry Hooligan – Top Rank (with Masta Ace accapella) 4. Prato – Keeps ya Moovin (Terry Hooligan remix) 5. Terry Hooligan ft. Ruthless & Genesis Elijah – See the Signs 6. Dub Pistols – Soul Shakin (Terry Hooligan & Filthy Rehab Remix) 7. Sangers and Ra – Too Hot (Terry Hooligan & Filthy Rehab Remix)

В этом волшебном часе вас ждет: Future Jungle Breaks set от  Krizzz, интервью с легендарным промоутером, организатором первых "MAYDAY", "BREAKS ARENA" и в наше время "Shake&Break" вечеринок, идеологом промогруппы "Vertigo" Стасом Одингом (Dj Oding S) и диджеем, в прошлом первым ведущим Trackpoint Breaks Podcast , постоянным участником самых ярких ломаных вечеринок - Сашей Nanobug (Санкт-Петербург).Далее вы окунетесь в историю breaks культуры через второй выпуск Break Beat Basket Hip Parad, посвященный английскому трио Koma & Bones. Весь праздник завершится эксклюзивным, гостевым миксом от Terry Hooligan | UK. Trackpoint Podcast Tracklist: 1.Kid Digital ft. Profit - Done With That (Original Mix) 2.VENT - Crystalite (Davip + Place 2b + Paimon Remix) 3. Mike Rigler, Coppa - Back For Real(Ben & Lex Remix) >>> Deekline, Ed Solo feat DJ Assault - Gimme (Viro Rob Analyze remix) 4.B-Phreak - X-Static (Afghan Headspin Remix) >>>Refracture - Redemption (Refracture's Ravey Redub) 5.Davip + Place 2b + Paimon - Sistema (Original Mix) >>> Stanton Warriors - Shoot Me Down feat. Ruby Goe (Pyramid Remix) 6.Aquasky ft. Didjelirium - Small World (Original Mix) >>> Affinity / Pendulum feat. Freestylers / Freestylers - Break / Fasten Your Seatbelt / The Slammer 7.Moguai, Fatboy Slim - Ya Mama (Push The Tempo) (Moguai Remix) >>> Bass and Funk - Extreme (Original_Mix) 8.INSa - Redlight Get out my Head (241 Bootylishus mix) >>> Guerilla Tech - We Try (Original Mix) >>> Emalkay - Keep Goin On (Original Mix) 9.Aquasky - Stardust Ft.Roisin Brophy (Original Mix) 10.Jeff Mills - Changes Of Life (Kid Chameleon Remix) Break Beat Basket Hit Parad ft. Koma & Bones Track List вы можете посмотреть на официальной странице ведущей breaks ветки Krizzz по адресу : http://djkrizzz.pdj.ru/ Exclusive Guest mix Mix by Terry Hooligan | UK Track List: 1. Terry Hooligan Ft. Genesis Elijah – Nat Turner 2. Terry Hooligan – Rumpa Pumpa (With Lil Kim accapella) 3. Terry Hooligan – Top Rank (with Masta Ace accapella) 4. Prato – Keeps ya Moovin (Terry Hooligan remix) 5. Terry Hooligan ft. Ruthless & Genesis Elijah – See the Signs 6. Dub Pistols – Soul Shakin (Terry Hooligan & Filthy Rehab Remix) 7. Sangers and Ra – Too Hot (Terry Hooligan & Filthy Rehab Remix)

Yesterday, his brother overdosed on drugs...