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Eco Medios Entrevistas
Agustín Salvia (Director del Observatorio de la Deuda Social - UCA) Dato Sobre Dato @DatosobreDato

Eco Medios Entrevistas

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2026 21:21


Agustín Salvia (Director del Observatorio de la Deuda Social - UCA) Dato Sobre Dato @DatosobreDato

BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast
April Showers, May Flowers

BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2026 147:02


Episode #424 of BGMania: A Video Game Music Podcast. Today on the show, Bryan and Bedroth are celebrating the season with an episode built entirely around flowers... or at least flower names. From soft and reflective themes to energetic idol tracks, strange late-night vibes, and even a few pieces carrying a little danger underneath the petals, every selection on today's playlist features a different flower in the title. Along the way, we'll be wandering through everything from visual novels and city builders to platformers, cyberpunk dystopias, puzzle games, and early-2000s Square weirdness. Some tracks feel warm and comforting like the first clear morning after a week of rain, while others drift into darker territory where the flowers probably grow under neon signs instead of sunlight. Turns out video game music has a surprisingly deep garden to pull from... No? Okay, I'll see myself out. Email the show at bgmaniapodcast@gmail.com with requests for upcoming episodes, questions, feedback, comments, concerns, or any other thoughts you'd like to share! Special thanks to our Executive Producers: Jexak, Xancu, Jeff & Mike. EPISODE PLAYLIST AND CREDITS Iris from FLOWERS [MANYO, 2016] Tulip -M@ster Version- from THE iDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS [Kakeru Ishihama feat. Yuko Iida, Ru Thing, Haruka Yoshimura, Asami Takano & Kotomi Aihara, 2011] Daffodil -Ginny's Theme- from Koibumi Romantica [Kensei, 2009] Pansy Town from Kururin Paradise [Atsuhiro Motoyama, 2002] Morning Glory from Cities: Skylines II [King Major, 2023] Lilac's Theme from Freedom Planet 2 [Leilani Wilson, 2022] Stadium -Daisy Cruiser- from Mario Super Sluggers [Ayako Yamaguchi, Masashi Sugiyama, Nobuhiro Ohuchi & Kazuyuki Fujita, 2008] Lily from Stellar Blade [seibin & Youngjee Lee feat. Miyo Takashiro, 2024] Bluebonnet from DYE [Danny Stracener, 2017] Kaldea Orchid from The Bouncer [Noriko Matsueda & Takahito Eguchi, 2000] White Sunflowers from Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time [Kazuya Izumi feat. Kouki Miyata, 2000] Salvia from Alice Gear Aegis [Nakayama Raiden, 2018] Dirty Roses from Cyberpunk 2077 [OnenO & Perilous Futur, 2020] Al-Di-La -Bergamot Version- from Nights: Journey of Dreams [Tomoya Ohtani & Naofumi Hataya, 2007] LINKS Patreon: https://patreon.com/bgmania Website: https://bgmania.podbean.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu Facebook: BGManiaPodcast X: BGManiaPodcast Instagram: BGManiaPodcast TikTok: BGManiaPodcast YouTube: BGManiaPodcast Twitch: BGManiaPodcast PODCAST NETWORK Very Good Music: A VGM Podcast Listening Religiously

The Psychedelic Entrepreneur - Medicine for These Times with Beth Weinstein
Psychedelics, Cartels, Capitalism & the Crisis of the Container - Dr. Del Potter

The Psychedelic Entrepreneur - Medicine for These Times with Beth Weinstein

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2026 74:53


Del Potter, PhD is an ethnopsychopharmacologist, chemist, and psychedelic pioneer whose career has moved across some of the most consequential and unconventional edges of the field, from Mesoamerican field research and underground manufacturing to cutting-edge pharmaceutical development and clinical trials. He brings a rare perspective to the psychedelic renaissance: not as a commentator, but as someone who was inside the apparatus that produced these compounds long before the current wave had a name. Dr. Potter holds a PhD from a joint program between the UCSF Medical School and UC Berkeley's Department of Anthropology, specializing in psychiatric anthropology, ethnopsychopharmacology, and neuropharmacology, with additional clinical training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. His postdoctoral fieldwork examined shamanic traditions and indigenous psychotherapeutic practice across multiple lineages, including ceremonial psilocybin and Salvia divinorum use among the Mazatec of central Mexico, ayahuasca and yagé ritual among the Shuar of Ecuador, and parallel traditions among the Yanomami of Brazil and the Cofán of Colombia, contributing to Richard Evans Schultes' comprehensive survey of psychotropic botanicals worldwide. A formative mentorship with Alexander Shulgin oriented his chemistry toward novel tryptamine compounds, particularly in the DMT and 5-MeO-DMT structural classes, and he has since developed a portfolio of compounds that retain the neuroplasticity associated with psychedelic receptor activity while producing no psychedelic effect. On the pharmaceutical and biotech side, Dr. Potter served as Chief Science Officer at Leef Holdings, designing what became California's largest fully automated medical cannabis manufacturing facility, and later directed first-in-human 5-MeO-DMT clinical trials at UCSF through his work with Alvarius Pharmaceuticals, followed by a Phase 1 trial at Trinity College Dublin. At University College Dublin, he developed and validated the use of human stem cell-derived brain organoids to assess how psychedelic compounds reverse epigenetic changes caused by substance abuse. In 2023 he founded Spiritus Bioscience to develop novel delivery formats for psilocin, DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT, with the first product entering clinical trials in Australia targeting Alcohol Use Disorder. He currently serves as founder and CSO of BioUnbound Inc., exploring the intersection of psychedelics and bioactive peptides for mental health and longevity applications. Dr. Potter is currently completing his memoir, whose working title is Was a Different Time: Chronicles of a Psychedelic Pioneer in the Reign of the Cartels.Episode Highlights ▶ Del's background supplying California cannabis genetics to the Guadalajara cartel and working at Rancho Bufalo  ▶ Meeting cartel figures Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero, and the fallout from the Kiki Camarena murder  ▶ Manufacturing LSD in Marin County using precursor chemicals sourced through cartel connections  ▶ How a DEA sting led to a federal task force, a stunning offer, and a get-out-of-jail-free card  ▶ Mentorship under Alexander Shulgin and the countercultural milieu of Esalen, Claudio Naranjo, Allen Ginsberg, and Terence McKenna  ▶ Why psychedelics have no intrinsic politics: the compound is the same, the container decides everything  ▶ The retreat economy as product development: when one medicine stops differentiating, operators start stacking  ▶ How the clinical and pharmaceutical models convert ceremony into a billable procedure  ▶ The psychoplastogen pipeline: engineering the experience out so the worker is back at their desk by Wednesday  ▶ Indigenous cosmological governance as a technical achievement, not a romanticized ideal  ▶ The concept of restraint and reciprocity as regulatory systems, and what Western culture has lost  ▶ Why patenting psilocybin protocols and dosing postures is a winnable legal argument  ▶ Publicly funded, community-governed clinics as the only container that can hold what these compounds require  ▶ The mental health crisis as inseparable from the housing, wage, care, and climate crises  ▶ Building a parallel infrastructure: cooperatives, commons defense, and indigenous benefit sharing as models    Dr. Del Potter's Links & Resources ▶ https://delpotterphd.substack.com ▶ https://www.facebook.com/del.potter.75 ▶ @drdelpotter.bsky.social ▶ www.biounbound.com ▶ https://www.instagram.com/potter_del/ Download Beth's free trainings here:  Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business ▶ Beth's Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching  ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services ▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein  ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz  Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth's Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz

Nephilim Death Squad
War Horse of The Apocalypse | NDS Chronicles

Nephilim Death Squad

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2026 105:22 Transcription Available


 NDS CHRONICLES IS BACK  David Lee Corbo (The Raven) and Top Lobsta go full send on the latest listener-submitted paranormal testimonies while roasting everything in sight.In this episode:• The guys tear into a cringey “HotMomFits” / Queen of Controversy TikTok-style Nephilim explanation from the Trinity of Truth / White Rabbit show — “Oh my God they were eating the people!”• Full Orthodox Church takedown: intercession prayers, icons, $250+ baptisms, “gay clown church,” Jay Dyer aura, and why it's all a waste of time.• Lauren Owly's insane “Horse Chronicles” testimony: multiple DC missions with her uncle blowing the shofar at the White House & monuments, J6 principalities, demon winds, water moccasin snake attacks, dog resurrection warning, rainbow worm orb, and her Southern Sunshine Beagles rescue.• Max's wild Salvia trip: astro-projection through infinite timelines and a glowing gold Queen of Heaven woman who tells him “you have to go back.”• BroGrove / Bohemian Grove ticket updates, Patreon plug, NDS video game demo (Mega Man X style with lobster powers), and Nancy producer chaos.Raw, unfiltered, zero gatekeeping Christian conspiracy commentary for the end times.Submit your own paranormal testimony: chroniclesnds@gmail.com  Support the show & get early/ad-free episodes + private communities: patreon.com/NephilimDeathSquad  BroGrove / Bohemian Grove tickets & merch: toplobsta.com Show / Hosts Socials:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NephilimDeathSquad  X: https://twitter.com/NephilimDSquad  Instagram: https://instagram.com/nephilimdeathsquad  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NephilimDeathSquad  Merch & BroGrove Tickets: https://toplobsta.com  Raven (David Lee Corbo): https://twitter.com/DavidLCorbo  Top Lobsta: https://twitter.com/TopLobstaLauren Owly / Southern Sunshine Beagles:  Website / Adopt: southernsunshinebeagles.com00:00 – Intro, Patreon, BroGrove / Bohemian Grove Ticket Updates & Nancy Chaos06:30 – Cringey Nephilim Girl on Trinity of Truth Roast (“Oh my God they were eating the people!”)18:45 – Orthodox Church Full Takedown: Icons, Saints, $250 Baptisms & “Gay Clown Church”35:20 – Lauren Owly Horse Chronicles Testimony Begins (Shofar DC Missions)55:10 – J6 Principalities, Demon Winds & Water Moccasin Snake Attacks1:10:40 – Rainbow Worm Orbs, Dog Resurrection & Southern Sunshine Beagles Rescue1:25:00 – Max's Wild Salvia Trip: Queen of Heaven Gold Woman & Infinite Timelines1:35:00 – NDS Video Game Demo (Mega Man X style) & Final Thoughts  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nephilim-death-squad--6389018/support.☠️ Nephilim Death Squad — New episodes 5x/week.Join our Patreon for early access, bonus shows & the private Telegram hive.Subscribe on YouTube & Rumble, follow @NephilimDSquad on X/Instagram, grab merch at toplobsta.com. Questions/bookings: chroniclesnds@gmail.com — Stay dangerous.

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
Kratom Vomit Sex Story PLUS Blake Mycoskie on Depression, Psychedelics & “I Am Enough” Dopey Wednesday

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2026 97:21


NO ADS ON PATREON - www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary Dave opens Dopey Wednesday by getting mad at Reddit, reminiscing about Penn South, the old Walter Reade theater, flea markets, and losing his apartment to heroin addiction. Then Ian from Paris calls in with a disgusting kratom-vomit sex story. Dave reads Spotify and Patreon comments about Zach Noe Towers, Chet Holmgren, Sassafras, Euphoria, Katz's, white claws, Amanda de Cadenet, and Dopey Nation recovery time. Then Dave interviews Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS and host of No Magic Pill. Blake talks about giving away 100 million shoes, Shark Tank, psychedelics, depression, getting misdiagnosed as bipolar, getting off pharmaceuticals, suicidal thoughts, San Pedro, “I am enough,” sobriety, quitting alcohol and nicotine, and using creativity, photography, therapy, and connection to rebuild his life. All that and more on a not too Dopey episode of Dopey! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Home Show Garden Pros Radio
Neem Oil for Plants, Cedar Salvia -260510-H2

Home Show Garden Pros Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2026 53:03


Hour 2 from Sherri’s Garden on Mother’s Day, 5/10/26, as she explains the uses of Neem Oil for plants, and Cedar Salvia as heard on SportsRadio 610 The post Neem Oil for Plants, Cedar Salvia -260510-H2 appeared first on HomeShow Garden Pros Radio.

Musical Theatre Radio presents
Discover A New Musical with Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal and Julien Salvia (World's Greatest Lover)

Musical Theatre Radio presents "Be Our Guest"

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2026 16:03


For one unforgettable night, the greatest lovers of all time — Romeo, Casanova, Cyrano de Bergerac and the Marquis de Sade — reunite in a wildly entertaining, pop-powered battle to discover the truth about romance, reputation, and desire.Featuring explosive choreography by Emmy Award-winner Joshua Bergasse (Smash, On the Town) and a contemporary pop score by Eurovision finalists Julien Salvia and Ludovic Alexandre-Vidal, this smart, funny and unexpectedly heartfelt new musical is as seductive as it is hilarious.Direct from New York, produced by Broadway International Group, Marc Routh and Simone Genatt, WORLD'S GREATEST LOVER is a bold new show that asks what happens when legendary lovers realise they may not understand love at all.Seductive. Hilarious. Irresistible.Prepare to be seduced.

Forbidden Knowledge News
Trips to Hell With Salvia, Lifetime As a Zipper, Kicked out of the DMT Realm | Jonathon Meyers

Forbidden Knowledge News

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2026 69:04 Transcription Available


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Programas FM Milenium
Detrás de las Palabras: Agustín Salvia, Director del Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina en la UCA

Programas FM Milenium

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2026 18:42


Detrás de las Palabras: Agustín Salvia, Director del Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina en la UCA Con Claudio Jacquelin Martes 20 h FM MILENIUM

A Podcast with Mo
Type Shit

A Podcast with Mo

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2026 63:48


A2thaMo talks about WW3, The Get Down, Trump, Straight of Hormuz,Monty Don's Garden Shows, Crocs, Local News, AI, NBA, Playstation Price Increases, Crimson Desert, Iodized Salt, Charlotte Train Stabbing, Music, DMT Realm, Salvia, and more while listening to new music!I Dont Care - Sir NastyGo Away ft ItsYaBoiH2 - Rockey616 Wake Up - A2thaMo

Eco Medios Entrevistas
Agustín Salvia (Director del Observatorio de la Deuda Social - UCA) Unas Cuantas verdades @marianoobarrio

Eco Medios Entrevistas

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2026 19:38


Agustín Salvia (Director del Observatorio de la Deuda Social - UCA) Unas Cuantas verdades @marianoobarrio

Urbana Play Noticias
La pobreza cayó al 28,2% en el segundo semestre de 2025, reclamo de oficiales policiales y docentes: Audios del 1 de abril por Urbana Play

Urbana Play Noticias

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2026 17:01


Agustín Salvia, director del Observatorio de Deuda Social de la UCA, habló sobre la canasta básica actual: "Si actualizaras la canasta básica total, que es la de la pobreza, con un patrón de consumo de gastos muy similar al actual, la pobreza no tendría estas medidas, tendría un número bastante mayor, ¿no? Que si tenés una canasta básica para una familia tipo de un millón seiscientos mil pesos o un millón quinientos, o un millón seiscientos mil pesos, te subiría al menos un veinticinco por ciento, un treinta por ciento, estaría en casi dos millones de pesos para no ser pobre una familia con dos a-- dos adultos y dos niños, lo cual haría que los niveles de pobreza serían mayores".El gobernador de Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, señaló que valora que el gobierno haya “frenado la inflación”, pero que puede haber consecuencias cuando la gente no llega a fin de mes: "Veo un gobierno muy concentrado en la macro y valoro también la corrección de las variables macro, haber frenado la inflación que teníamos en el 2023, haber logrado equilibrar los gastos y los recursos de la República Argentina. Creo que eso es importante, pero eso empieza a crujir cuando los recursos no le llegan a la gente y la gente no... llega a fin de mes y se termina endeudando".Durante un acto con oficiales en la provincia de Buenos Aires se escucharon gritos y silbidos mientras hablaba Kicillof: "Nos encontramos con una policía mal equipada, mal formada, muy desprestigiada. Es por eso que en el día de hoy se vuelve esencial... (pausa de 5 segundos) se vuelve esencial sostener... (pausa de 3 segundos) sostener... (pausa de 2 segundos) ante situaciones cada vez más complejas, nuestra Policía de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Nuevos oficiales de la Policía que van a combatir el delito".El rector de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Franco Bartolacci, remarcó que la Justicia haya rectificado la Ley de Financiamiento Universitario y le pidió al Gobierno ejecutarla: "Quería compartirles la noticia de que acabamos de recibir el fallo de la Cámara... en lo Contencioso Administrativo Federal, que confirma lo dispuesto en primera instancia respecto de la cautelar presentada por el Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional y ordena, eh, la aplicación y el cumplimiento de la Ley de Financiamiento Universitario, tal como lo venimos, eh, reclamando de múltiples formas. Una excelente noticia para toda la comunidad universitaria del país, que valoramos, en un contexto extremadamente delicado como estamos atravesando".Noticias del miércoles 1 de abril por María O'Donnell y equipo  de De Acá en Más por Urbana Play 104.3 FMSeguí a De Acá en Más en Instagram y XUrbana Play 104.3 FM. Somos la radio que ves.Suscribite a #Youtube. Seguí a la radio en Instagram y en XMandanos un whatsapp ➯ Acá¡Descargá nuestra #APP oficial! ➯  https://scnv.io/m8Gr 

AWS - Il podcast in italiano
Le novità nel mondo database al re:Invent 2025

AWS - Il podcast in italiano

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2026 32:58


Quali sono le principali novità annunciate al re:Invent 2025 in ambito database? Cosa sono i Database Savings Plans e come possono far risparmiare fino al 35% sui costi? Quali miglioramenti sono stati introdotti per RDS Oracle e SQL Server? Cosa significa Optimize CPU e come può ridurre i costi di licenza? Quali sono le novità per Aurora DSQL, ElastiCache, DynamoDB e DocumentDB? Oggi ne parliamo con Domenico di Salvia, Senior Solutions Architect e database specialist di AWS.Link utili:- Amazon Aurora- Oracle Database@AWS

Fellowship in Essential Oils
Essential Oils for Sagittarius | Sage, Tangerine, Rosemary, Tulsi, Peppermint and more

Fellowship in Essential Oils

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2026 24:52


Are you ready to explore the expansive world of the Archer? In this episode, Adam Barralet and Elizabeth Ashley (The Secret Healer) dive deep into the aromatic profile of Sagittarius. As a sign ruled by Jupiter, Sagittarius is all about expansion, seeking truth, and embarking on grand adventures—both across the globe and within the mind. But what happens when that fire burns a little too bright, or when the "explorer" forgets to stay grounded?What's Inside This Episode:The Power of Sage: Discover why Clary Sage and Spanish Sage are the ultimate "truth-seeker" oils, and hear Elizabeth's crucial clinical advice on the safety differences between Salvia officinalis and Clary Sage.The Traveler's Protector: Learn why Tangerine is the traditional guardian for those on long journeys and how it helps clear "spiteful" energy from the aura.Balancing the "Life of the Party": When enthusiasm turns to overindulgence or unfinished projects, Adam suggests Rosemary and Tulsi (Holy Basil) to bring focus and spiritual purity back into play.Medical Astrology & The Liver: Elizabeth explains the Sagittarian connection to the liver, hips, and the sciatic nerve. Discover why Peppermint and Rosemary are essential for managing the physical "stretches" of the Jupiter archetype.KEY ESSENTIAL OILS DISCUSSEDClary Sage: Opening the mind and clearing mental clutter to find the "truth."Tangerine: Protection for travelers and maintaining a positive, upbeat vibration.Rosemary: Supporting the liver and soothing the sciatic nerve (Medical Astrology).Tulsi (Holy Basil): Staying in your "pure lane" and avoiding distractions or "dickheads."Peppermint; Cooling physical pain in the hips and refocusing an overwhelmed mind.ABOUT ADAM BARRALET Adam Barralet has been observing and living in tune with nature since childhood. Growing up amongst the bushland and wildlife of the hills in Western Australia and residing in various locations around the world has presented Adam with diverse opportunities to access extensive and eclectic teachings about the secrets of Mother Earth. He has used essential oils for over 30 years and teams his experiences with his background in human biology, chemistry, psychology, health sciences and massage.He has now established himself as an international author, presenter, educator and Wellness Advocate, adept at working with essential oils, along with crystals, animal guides, tarot, astrology and mythology. CONNECT WITH ADAM HERE: https://linktr.ee/adambarralet ABOUT ELIZABETH ASHLEYElizabeth Ashley has over 20 books on sale on Amazon under her pen name The Secret Healer. The UK Director of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy and an overseas speaker for The International Federation of Aromatherapists, Elizabeth's work focuses on understanding the very earliest energetic relationships between certain plants and the human world, right up the modern-day scientific evidence of healing botanicals.A practicing Melissa priestess, a plant and bee shamaness as well as a bee guardian, she has the unique perspective of having one foot in our three-dimensional scientific reality with the other dancing in the spiritual realms.CONNECT WITH LIZ HERE: https://linktr.ee/thesecrethealer

TrueLife
Looking Into The Mirror On Drugs - KATAPT♾️ - Bifurcated tryptamine-salvinorin hybrid

TrueLife

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2026 29:42


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USOne on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingCOMPOUND CLASSBifurcated tryptamine-salvinorin hybrid. The first of its structural class, insofar as its structural class is 'compounds that have decided to use your visual cortex as a portal rather than a canvas.' KATAPT-∞ is not a psychedelic in the conventional sense — it does not expand or distort perception. It inverts it. Specifically, it inverts the directionality of consciousness itself, which sounds like a metaphor and is not a metaphor and is in fact the most precise statement anyone has made in this document so far.The compound class designation 'infinite valence' refers not to its bonding chemistry but to its topological effect on self-referential awareness. Standard psychedelics have a valence of 1: they take you somewhere. KATAPT-∞ has a valence of ∞ because the somewhere it takes you is inside the taking, which contains another taking, which contains another, which contains you, which contains the compound, which contains the somewhere, turtles all the way down except there are no turtles and there is no down and the concept of 'all the way' has just handed in its resignation.HYPOTHETICAL PRECURSOR ROUTEThe synthesis requires two components that have never been in the same room together and would, if introduced, spend the first several minutes circling each other with the mutual wariness of two people who have heard about each other from a mutual friend and are not sure the mutual friend has their best interests at heart.Component A: A tryptamine backbone — standard 5-MeO geometry, with one crucial modification at what we will call the observer position, which is not a real crystallographic designation and which the IUPAC nomenclature committee would find objectionable, but which is the only accurate way to describe the carbon atom responsible for the compound's relationship with the concept of witness.Component B: A synthetic neosalvinorin fragment — specifically the furanyl lactone ring system that confers kappa-opioid selectivity in the natural compound, stripped of its terpenoid context and reattached to the tryptamine scaffold via a thiourea linker that is, in the theoretical literature, the most uncomfortable molecular bridge since the one in that dream where you are trying to get somewhere and the bridge keeps changing its mind about whether it is a bridge.In a proposed condensation occurring at 37 degrees Celsius, zero humidity, and the ambient atmospheric pressure of a bathroom at approximately 7:14 on a Tuesday morning — the two components undergo what the theoretical literature calls a paradoxical aperture formation: a bond that simultaneously connects and inverts. The resulting molecule does not have a conventional structural formula. It has a structural question. The question is: which end is inside.The answer, as the subject is about to discover, is both. Simultaneously. With gusto.PROPOSED RECEPTOR PHARMACOLOGYKATAPT-∞ acts simultaneously at three receptor systems, which is two more than well-behaved compounds typically act at, and which produces an effect that can be described, in clinical language, as a 'full-spectrum inversion of the observer-observed relationship,' and which can be described in plain language as: you are the mirror.5-HT2A agonism: the standard psychedelic chassis. Signal amplification. Present-tense luminosity. The now becoming very, very, extremely now. This component is the stage.Kappa-opioid agonism via the neosalvinorin fragment: the Salvia mechanism. Derealization of the observer. The brain's self-monitoring system — the part that says 'I am the one watching this' — begins to recognize itself as also being watched. By something. By the watching itself. By the thing that has always been looking through your eyes, which is not you in the way you thought you were you, and which has, it emerges, a personality.Sigma-2 receptor modulation: the novel component. Sigma-2 receptors are implicated in intracellular membrane organization — the architecture of what's inside. KATAPT-∞'s sigma-2 activity does not alter this architecture. It makes it visible. Specifically, it makes the boundary between outside and inside — between the face you show the mirror and the mirror you are — temporarily, magnificently, irreversibly transparent. Not from the outside in. From the inside, which is also the outside. Which is the problem. Which is the feature.The proposed result of this three-way binding profile: the subject does not have a psychedelic experience. The subject discovers that psychedelic experience has been having them. Has always been having them. Has in fact been running them as a kind of ongoing background process since the moment of their first self-aware thought, and has been waiting, with the patience of something that does not experience time the way things that experience time experience time, for the subject to finally look in the right mirror long enough to notice. One on One Video call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Creative Science for Kids
Amazing animals – frog science with Dr Jodi Rowley and Dr Rebecca Webb

Creative Science for Kids

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2026 16:56


Let's celebrate World Frog Day with five fun and fascinating fast facts about frogs, a chat with some froggy scientists, Dr Jodi Rowley and Dr Rebecca Webb, and a gooey chia seed frog spawn activity for you to try yourself at home.   Presented by Jenny Lynch and Matilda. Written and produced by Jenny Lynch. Music by Purple Planet Music. Sound effects by Pixabay. Image: Green Tree Frog Litoria caerulea (Photo credit: Dr Jodi Rowley)   Support the podcast to keep it ad-free! https://buymeacoffee.com/creativescience Join the email list: https://www.creativescience.com.au/contact/  Creative Science: https://www.creativescience.com.au Facebook: @creativescienceaustralia Instagram: @creative_science_australia   Episode content: 00:00 Introduction and fast facts 03:33 Interview with Dr Jodi Rowley 11:19 Interview with Dr Rebecca Webb 14:51 Chia seed frog spawn activity   FrogID citizen science project led by Dr Jodi Rowley at the Australian Museum: https://www.frogid.net.au/   Dr Rebecca Webb at the University of Melbourne: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/962839-rebecca-webb   Chia seed frog spawn activity You will need: cold water, a measuring cup, a tablespoon, 2 tablespoons of black chia seeds, and a spoon for stirring. Chia seeds are small seeds that you might be able to buy at a supermarket, a fruit and vegetable shop, or a health food store. Wash your hands with soap and warm water. Add half a cup of cold water to the measuring cup. Add two tablespoons of black chia seeds to the water. Stir the mixture and leave it to sit for about 5 minutes. Stir it again and then leave the mixture to cool down in the fridge for 2 hours. After 2 hours, take it out of the fridge and stir the mixture one more time. Make sure your hands are clean before picking up the mixture to play with it. When you take it out of the fridge, you will have a cup of gooey chia seed frog spawn. You can also try adding honey or maple syrup to the chia seed mixture to make a tasty snack!   What's happening? Chia seeds are the seeds of the plant Salvia hispanica which is native to Mexico and Guatemala. When the seeds are mixed with water, a slimy coating forms to protect the seeds until they have time to grow. The slimy coating on the seeds looks a lot like the gooey jelly in frog spawn that protects frog's eggs until they are ready to hatch.

The Third Wave
Salvia Divinorum: A Somatic Approach to Healing - Christopher Solomon

The Third Wave

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2026 59:28


In this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Paul F. Austin speaks with Christopher Solomon, founder of Salvia Healings, about how Salvia divinorum can be approached as a therapeutic and introspective tool when used with preparation and somatic awareness. Find full show notes and links here: https://thethirdwave.co/podcast/episode-346/?ref=278  They discuss dosage, harm reduction, and the importance of building a supportive container for working with intense altered states. The conversation explores how somatic awareness, breath, and pacing can help transform the Salvia experience into an opportunity for meditation, trauma processing, and self guided healing. Christopher Solomon is a somatic Salvia guide and educator focused on helping people approach Salvia with safety, structure, and intention. Drawing from his training in somatic psychotherapy, he teaches how to work with this powerful plant in ways that support introspection and personal growth. Highlights: Reframing Salvia's cultural reputation Set and setting with Salvia Somatic awareness during altered states Microdosing vs threshold experiences Harm reduction and preparation Episode Links: Christopher's website Somatic Salvia Network Episode Sponsors: The Microdosing Practitioner Certification at Psychedelic Coaching Institute. The Practitioner Certification Program by Third Wave's Psychedelic Coaching Institute. Golden Rule - Get a lifetime discount of 10% with code THIRDWAVE at checkout Third Wave occasionally partners with or shares information about other people, companies, and/or providers. While we work hard to only share information about ethical and responsible third parties, we can't and don't control the behavior of, products and services offered by, or the statements made by people, companies, or providers other than Third Wave. Accordingly, we encourage you to research for yourself, and consult a medical, legal, or financial professional before making decisions in those areas. Third Wave isn't responsible for the statements, conduct, services, or products of third parties. If we share a coupon code, we may receive a commission from sales arising from customers who use our coupon code. No one is required to use our coupon codes."

GOONS
#238 - DON'T PODCAST ON SALVIA

GOONS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2026 66:37


What happens if you try salvia? The GOONS gathered the most insane salvia trip stories, sit back and enjoy the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Gardener's Notebook
Salvia “Hot Lips” (Hot Lips Sage) [Photography]

A Gardener's Notebook

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2026


This has become very popular around me here in Los Angeles. I now seeit almost everywhere, but it was not that prevalent when we first planted ours. “Hot Lips” seems Continue Reading Read more on this topic: Garden Still Life #watercolor #painting #art #garden #gardenersnotebook #tools via Instagram [Photo] Yellow Daylily Computer, Tablet and Smartphone Wallpapers and Products [Photography] 12 Low-Maintenance Flowering Succulents via The Spruce [Shared] Mexican sage in the garden via Instagram Summer Evening #sky #trees #clouds #garden #gardenersnotebook #evening #sunset #bw #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #outdoors via Instagram [Photo]

MAGICk WITHOUT FEARs
Whistleblowers Expose UAP Encounters, Alien Marks, and Government Cover-Up

MAGICk WITHOUT FEARs "Hermetic Podcast" with Frater R∴C∴

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2026 176:33


Featuring Frater Eleftheria of Lifting the Lamp, Daniel Rekshan of D-SETI, P.D. Newman and Frater R.C.Watch the full livestream: https://youtube.com/live/FFOP5or7IEoFrater Eleftheria (YT: LIFTING THE LAMP) - P.D. NEWMAN - D.P. Rekshan - Frater RC00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:47 Setting the Scene: Modern World Madness03:00 Matthew Brown's Whistleblowing and UAP Phenomena03:33 Elon Musk, AI, and Occult References04:38 Unexpected Channel Popularity07:45 Jack Parsons and the Occult22:05 Orbs, Light Beings, and UAPs29:31 Government Involvement and Military Encounters41:19 Occultism, Hermeticism, and Esoteric Wisdom52:18 The Sphere of Venus and Ishtar's Descent53:37 Debunking Rosicrucian Myths56:07 Neo-Platonism and Modern Connections57:16 Government Interest in CE5 and Orbs01:01:13 Psychedelics and Mystical Experiences01:02:47 Enochian Magic and Ufology01:09:13 The End Times and New Belief Systems01:27:55 Peter Thiel and the Eschaton01:37:09 Shadow Banning and Fake Ads01:37:45 Middle East Conflicts and Apocalyptic Expectations01:38:43 Theology and Political Leaders01:43:45 Enochian Magic and Espionage01:46:29 Prophecies and Predictions02:06:41 Salvia and Psychedelic Experiences02:13:30 UFOs and Ceremonial Magic02:17:29 Exploring Body Marks and Alien Abductions02:18:07 Balancing Rationality and Irrationality02:18:31 Upcoming Event in Vancouver02:19:37 Comparing Amanita and DMT02:20:17 The Effects of Psychedelics on Receptors02:23:57 Personal Experiences with Psychedelics02:27:22 Charting DMT Hyperspace02:35:40 Bilocation and Astral Projection02:43:48 Concluding Thoughts and Future EventsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/magick-without-fears-frater-r-c-hermetic-podcast/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Ruud Kleinpaste: Attractive colours and pollinators

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2025 3:43 Transcription Available


Most gardeners are aware that certain plants appear to be great for pollinators. Pollination is important for the reproduction of plants, and it comes in many different ways. We often just sit and watch the spectacle unfold as we have a cup of tea in front of our shed. Pollination is done through ABIOTIC ways: (wind movements) or through BIOTIC techniques (Mostly insects: bees, flies, butterflies, moths, beetles and birds). It makes sense that early flowering plants rely on early pollinating insects. Dandelions are a good example; they often use small native bees to do the job. By the way, about one-third of New Zealand's plants are wind-pollinated (think grasses and the various plants that cause hayfever). Here's a line-up of all sorts of pollinators in the group of insects. For the flowers pollinated by insects, especially bees, it's interesting to note that they have different colour vision to humans. Blue, green, violet and ultra-violet are the key colours. The blue flowers that will certainly bring in the pollinators are Ageratum, Chatham Island Forget-Me-Not, Cornflower, Delphinium, Echinops, and Eryngium, with standards such as Salvia, Phacelia, Campanula and Tweedia. When birds are getting involved in pollination (just under 10%), you'll find that Tui and Bellbirds are often at the front of the line, with silvereyes waiting for their turn. Kowhai, Flax, Rata species, and special recipients of bird beaks, such as Kaka Beak and Mistletoe are the lure for birds. Bellbird and tui with orange pollen and red flowers While most insects see things in blue, violet, and ultra-violet spectrum, birds see red and yellow. Blackbirds also see red flowers: They love to “cause trouble” in the Feijoa trees with heaps of red flowers by violently ripping the flowers to pieces… The most efficient way to pollinate the crop of feijoas!!! LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

World Record Podcast with Brendon Walsh
Episode 311: Myq Kaplan UNLEASHED

World Record Podcast with Brendon Walsh

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2025 45:38


MYQ KAPLAN joins the BEE MAN in the WRP studios to talk about ayahuasca and other psychedelics, doing Comics Unleashed, his new special Rini, and we get the WINNING POWERBALL NUMBERS and find out where he lies on the autism spectrum. GET TICKETS TO B-$ & THE O'CONNMAN'S SHOW IN L.A.: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2-ring-circus-starring-b-the-oconnman-tickets-1959330743999?aff=oddtdtcreator Watch Myq's new special Rini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uf9i_z-Aw Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/worldrecordpodcast Buy merch, watch videos and more! https://worldrecordpodcast.com 00:00 - Intro & Guest Welcome 00:25 - Comedy Unleashed & Podcast Vibes 03:25 - Psychedelics: Mushrooms & Ayahuasca Stories 05:45 - Bad Trips, Paranoia, and Lessons Learned 08:21 - Spirituality, Enlightenment, and Life Lessons 10:23 - Ayahuasca Ceremonies: What Really Happens 15:00 - DMT, Salvia, and Other Psychedelic Experiences 17:39 - Free Will, Fate, and Deep Thoughts 32:00 - Standup Comedy, Stage Names, and Career Reflections 42:45 - Powerball Calls

TRiPPiN
He Lived 8 Years in 45 Seconds | Craziest Salvia Trip Report Ever

TRiPPiN

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2025 18:56


This salvia trip report will give you the chills and open your mind to the fact that we know absolutely nothing when it comes to the universe and even our own reality. Instagram► instagram.com/imtrippin2hardTiktok► https://www.tiktok.com/@imtrippin2hard?_t=ZT-8yT1f2CO2FD&_r=1Salvia Trip Report!►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ycaGcX_w8&list=PL_0q8zQRycjTzg_A0LFW6D4UrAjWiRLjl&index=25Spotify►https://open.spotify.com/show/5i24lc5DEMbxR6SwVzLn3F?si=Xvm9nA3FTMmTlknsDAupZQEmail► imtrippin2hard@gmail.comConsciousness Playlist►  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_0q8zQRycjQ3yfxBESjr3zTdirSQ19OC&si=m7WI9_BY5YVpOwykYouTube►https://www.youtube.com/c/TRiPPNThis video is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Always research, practice harm reduction and follow your local laws.© TRiPP!NSend me a message! Support the show

The Gardenangelists
Rosemary for Remembrance: "Officianalis" Flowers and Herbs

The Gardenangelists

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2025 46:30


Send us a textDee and Carol talk about flowers, herbs, and even a weed that all have the species name of "officianalis." Plus, they review a new book about growing vegetables for preserving.To find out more, check out our weekly newsletter on SubstackWatch us on YouTube!Insect of the week:Mole Crickets: Flowers:With “officinalis” as the species name.Primula officinalis - Cowslip (also called Primula veris) Pulmonaria officinalis - Lungwort Saponaria officinalis - Soapwort aka Bouncing Bet Verbena officinalis - Common vervain Hyssopus officinalis - HyssopVegetables:Herbs with “officinalis” as the species name.Salvia officinalis - Common sage Rosmarinus officinalis - Rosemary (now generally classified as Salvia rosmarinus) Melissa officinalis - Lemon balm,Calendula officinalis - Pot marigold Borago officinalis - Borage Levisticum officinalis - Lovage On the Bookshelf:The Preserver's Garden: How to Grow a Garden for Fermenting, Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freeze Drying & Moreby Staci & Jeremy Hill (Amazon Link)Dirt:Taraxacum officinale - Common dandelionRabbit Holes:Dee: CBD creams Carol:  Cozy mysteries and  talking flowers Check out our affiliate links here.  We appreciate all our listeners and readers, and love it when you send us suggestions. Do you have a suggestion for our We Do Not Care segment? If so, send it our way!Have a great week everyone!Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.

Figuring It Out With Grace & Kaylee
Peptides 101: The Future of Healing with Kristin Salvia of Holistic Wellness ATX

Figuring It Out With Grace & Kaylee

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2025 46:17


Curious about peptides and why everyone's talking about them? In this episode, we sit down with Kristin Salvia, founder of Holistic Wellness ATX, to unpack what peptides are, how they work, and how they can support recovery, longevity, mental clarity, and whole-body wellness.We cover:What peptides actually do in the bodyWhy they're trending in holistic health and biohackingPopular peptides like BPC-157 and Ipamorelin — what's real vs. hypeSafety, sourcing, and working with a qualified practitionerPerfect for anyone who wants to understand the science, safety, and potential behind this wellness trend.✨ Connect with Kristin: @holisticwellnessatx | holisticwellnessatx.com

Jumpers Jump
EP.259 - HALLOWEEN PAGANISM THEORY, HAUNTED DORM ROOM STORY & THE CRIME SCENE CLEANERS

Jumpers Jump

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2025 73:14


Jump in with Carlos Juico and Gavin Ruta on episode 259 of Jumpers Jump. This episode we discuss: Weird childhood toys, Thrift store can story, Ex satanist, Halloween paganism theory, Haunted dorm room story, Ghost stories & theories, Stone tape theory, Sopranos theory, Hellscape theory, Salvia trip, Guy goes missing for 22 yrs, Crazy prom story, Drunk stories, Bible theory, Be do become, Pride in faith, Debating Carlos, Beyblades ancient history, Fighting fish, True crime boat, Storytelling, Fighting theory, Vegas stories, Twitter vids, The crime scene cleaners, The Tombstone cleaner, Pig demons and much more! -Sign up for a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/jumpers -Go to https://www.hims.com/jumpers for your free online visit  Follow the podcast: @JumpersPodcast Follow Carlos: @CarlosJuico Follow Gavin: @GavinRutaa Check out the podcast on YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/JumpersJumpYT⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glass In Session ™ Winecast
Let's Absinthe ... Again! (re-release for Halloween)

Glass In Session ™ Winecast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 24:13


Just in time for spooky season we explore a treat of a fine spirit with a tricky past. Absinthe: what it is, how it behaves in the glass, the deal on wormwood, a brief history, and some thujone theory. Please absinthe responsibly, and apologies for the historical nugget on dog flatulence. Resources from this episode: Books: Absinthe: History in a Bottle, Conrad, B. (1988) The Drunken Botanist: The plants that create the world's great drinks. Stewart, A. (2013) The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, McCullough, D. (2012) Society of Wine Educators: Certified Specialist of Spirits (CSS) Study Guide, Nickles, J. (2020) Academic Journals/Papers: Chemistry Central Journal (5:44): Determination of the biologically active flavour substances thujone and camphor in foods and medicines containing sage (Salvia officinalis L.), Walch, S. Kuballa T., Stühlinger, W., Lachenmeier, D., (21 July 2011)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155476/ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (97(8)): α-Thujone (the active component of absinthe): γ-Aminobutyric acid type A receptor modulation and metabolic detoxification, Höld, K., Sirisoma, N., Ikeda, T., Narahashi, T., Casida, J., (11 April 2000), pp. 3826 - 3831, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18101/ Websites: Cocktail Safe: Wormwood and thujone safety information for cocktails https://www.cocktailsafe.org/wormwood-and-thujone.html The Spirits Business: The 10 most famous absinthe drinkers, Hopkins, A. (2014) https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2014/08/the-10-most-famous-absinthe-drinkers/ The Nachtkabarett: Mansinthe, Kushner, N. http://www.nachtkabarett.com/mansinthe Wormwood Society: Absinthe Original D- Don't believe the hype, Robinson, B., (24 November 2009) https://wormwoodsociety.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=665&catid=16&Itemid=233 Podcasts: Glass in Session® Winecast: S1E2: Aperitif Wines (2019) https://glassinsession.libsyn.com/s1e2-aperitif-wines Wine Two Five: Anise Spirits and a Nice (Wine!) Surprise (2018) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anise-spirits-and-a-nice-wine-surprise/id986650051?i=1000415280141 Wine Two Five: Boos & Booze: Spooky Wine & Spirits Stories (2015) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boos-booze-spooky-wine-spirits-stories/id986650051?i=1000355843969   Glass in Session® (including Absinthe!) swag:  https://www.teepublic.com/user/glass-in-session Glass in Session® is a registered trademark of Vino With Val, LLC. Music: "Write Your Story" by Joystock (Jamendo.com cc_Standard License, Jamendo S.A.)

Ninjas Are Butterflies
164 - Greenland's Nuclear Secret, Salvia's Past, and AI's Future

Ninjas Are Butterflies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2025 109:57


In this episode of Ninjas Are Butterflies, we explore the hidden nuclear bombs buried beneath Greenland, the ancient and dangerous history of salvia, and the rise of AI taking over Hollywood. From Cold War secrets under the ice to mind-altering rituals used for centuries, and the growing power of artificial intelligence in the film industry, this one has it all. It's a mix of conspiracy, history, and technology that'll make you question what's really being kept from us. Tune in for a blend of chaos, comedy, and classic Ninjas Are Butterflies energy. Thanks to our sponsor BetterHelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/NINJAS for 10% off your first month #sponsored As a special offer for listeners, new customers get 20% off sitewide with our exclusive code. Use code [NINJAS] at https://shopmando.com/ for 20% off sitewide + free shipping. #mandopod #ad Get MORE Exclusive Ninjas Are Butterflies Content by joining our Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/NinjasAreButterflies NEW EPISODES EVERY FRIDAY @ 6AM EST! Ninja Merch: https://www.sundaycoolswag.com/ Start Your Custom Apparel Order Here: https://bit.ly/NinjasYT-SundayCool Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
Dopey 549: Heroin at 16, Bundles in Puerto Rico, Mongo in Queens, Addiction Recovery OG – The Johnny Mac Story

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 121:27


https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/1765668NO INSERTED ADS ON PATREON:www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastThis week on Dopey! We are joined by old school recovery/addiction legend Johnny Mac! From Queens! But first we learn about Sky Fly in PA, we hear from a benzo addict in the UK and then hear a nice story about Salvia from Loosey in California! Then we get this fuckin Johnny Mac! A 74-year-old New York junkie-turned-AA old-timer, who lays out his wild ride from Woodside Irish Catholic rules to acid-dealing in Ecuador, nodding out on heroin in Queens, and finally finding peace in AA. Johnny talks about his first bag at 16 (while tripping on mushrooms), copping in Bushwick and Harlem, nearly dying on the toilet, watching friends die, and pulling scams from coke hustles to copper wire “mongo.” He tells insane stories from La Perla in Puerto Rico, sneaking bundles on planes, running a Port Authority newsstand, and OD'ing only to chase the same dope the next morning. But through all the chaos, Johnny shares deep reflections on God, spirituality, and why being “stupid enough not to drink and keep showing up” has kept him sober. This one's pure Dopey gold—equal parts junkie chronicles and spiritual wisdom. All that and more! On the good old dopey show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Master My Garden Podcast
- EP293 Perennial Grow Along September 2025. What You Will Need To Grow Your Own Perennial Border. Seed to Border: The Perennial Grow Along Project

Master My Garden Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 26:07 Transcription Available


Imagine transforming your garden with a beautiful perennial border—all grown from seed at a fraction of the cost of buying established plants. This episode kicks off our exciting Perennial Grow Along project, guiding you through the entire journey from seed to spectacular flowering plants.Growing perennials from seed isn't just economical; it fills gardeners with immense pride. There's something truly special about nurturing a tiny seed into a magnificent flowering plant that will grace your garden for years to come. Whether you're planning to expand your borders, add color to new areas, or simply experience the joy of growing, this project offers something for everyone.We break down exactly what you'll need to get started: perennial seeds of your choice, suitable growing media, seed trays (or improvised containers), and labels. You'll learn about selecting the right varieties for your conditions, including both cultivated flowers and native wildflowers. Featured plants include English lavender, Verbena bonariensis, Salvia 'Blue Queen', Rudbeckia, Lupins, and more—each offering unique colors and characteristics for your garden.The grow along follows a simple structure. Starting with a comprehensive sowing demonstration on YouTube (September 15th), we'll progress through germination, pricking out seedlings, growing on through winter, and finally planting out next summer. Live Q&A sessions will address your specific challenges, ensuring everyone succeeds regardless of experience level.Don't miss this opportunity to create something beautiful and lasting for your garden while developing valuable skills. Subscribe to Master My Garden on YouTube to catch all the videos, and send your questions to info@mastermygarden.com for our live sessions. Join us as we grow together and transform our gardens one seed at a time!The perennial seed I will grow in this challenge are:Achillea millefolium 'F2 Summer Berries' Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm' Salvia x superba 'Blue Queen' Lupinus x russellii ‘The Pages'  Verbena bonariensis  Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Nora Barlow' Gaura lindheimeri ‘Emmeline Pink Bouquet' Erigeron karvinskianus 'Profusion' Echinacea hybrida 'Paradiso Tall Mix' Lavandula angustifolia 'Lavender Vera'Native Oc Eye DaisyNative St.John's WorthNative MarjoramNative Birds Foot TrefoilNative Greater KnapweedNative CampionSubscribe to Master My Garden on YouTube for updates https://www.youtube.com/@mastermygarden9542/featuredSupport the showIf there is any topic you would like covered in future episodes, please let me know. Email: info@mastermygarden.com Master My Garden Courses: https://mastermygarden.com/courses/Check out Master My Garden on the following channels Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mastermygarden/ Instagram @Mastermygarden https://www.instagram.com/mastermygarden/ Until next week Happy gardening John

Don't REED My Mind
#346 - The Time Mushroom: Unlocking Hidden Dimensions of Reality

Don't REED My Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2025 31:32


Episode 346. In this mind-bending episode, we explore how mushrooms and the plant Salvia divinorum can profoundly distort our perceptions of time and space. From the sensation of stepping into alternate dimensions to the feeling of hours passing in mere minutes, these natural substances challenge everything we think we know about reality. Enjoy the show! Sponsor: LRPod Website ✨ Unlock Success with The Weallth Circle – Free on Patreon! Get early-access podcast videos, behind-the-scenes drops, exclusive content, and more. Join the movement, build your mindset, and level up your hustle today!

Mountain Gardener with Ken Lain
The Biggest Perennial Flowers of Summer

Mountain Gardener with Ken Lain

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2025 9:33


In this episode, Ken and Lisa of Watters Garden Center share the biggest perennial flowers of summer. Hear all about some beautiful bloomers, including the fragrant Saffron Echinacea, the hummingbird-attracting Salvia, and the vibrant Rudbeckia Prairie Sun, along with a mention of Echibeccia. What other great plants and timely gardening advice with you get in this episode? Listen in to find out.Listen to Mountain Gardener on Cast11: https://cast11.com/mountain-gardener-with-ken-lain-gardening-podcast/Follow Cast11 on Facebook: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network/

Huberman Lab
Health Effects & Risks of Kratom, Opioids & Other Natural Occurring Medicines | Dr. Chris McCurdy

Huberman Lab

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 164:07


My guest is Dr. Chris McCurdy, PhD, FAAPS, professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Florida and a world expert on the pharmacology of kratom and other plant-derived medicinal compounds. We discuss kratom's wide-ranging effects, including its use for boosting energy, enhancing mood, managing pain and as a potential opioid substitute, while also explaining its critical safety concerns and addictive potential, especially for kratom-derived/isolate products. We also discuss plant-based compounds more generally for their potential benefits and risks. Dr. McCurdy offers a balanced perspective on kratom and other plant-based and naturally occurring medicinal compounds, highlighting and contrasting their promise for human health with potential serious risks. Read the episode show notes at hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman David Protein: https://davidprotein.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman ROKA: https://roka.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman Timestamps 00:00:00 Chris McCurdy 00:02:51 Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), Origin, Effects, Low vs High Doses 00:07:19 Sponsors: David Protein & Eight Sleep 00:10:07 Kratom, Traditional Use vs Commercial Kratom Products, Absorption 00:17:00 Kratom Products, Serving Size, Kids; Semi-Synthetics; Tool: Understand Kratom Product Labels 00:23:16 Kratom Products & Various Desired Effects; Physical Dependence 00:32:53 Different Kratom Usage Patterns, Opioid Dependence 00:36:59 Alkaloid Compounds, Nitrogen, Nicotine; Animals & Self-Experimentation 00:47:47 Sponsors: AG1 & ROKA 00:51:05 Medicine Development, Disconnection from Nature, Product Concentrations 00:59:00 Alkaloids & Natural Products, Opium Poppy, Coca Leaf, Tool: Kratom Leaf vs Extracts (Kratom-Derived/Kratom Isolates) 01:09:06 Is It Safe for Kids to Consume Kratom Products? 01:12:19 Kratom, Energy, Mood & Pain Management, Dose; Caffeine 01:16:56 Respiratory Depression & Kratom Products 01:20:16 Sponsor: Function 01:22:04 Kratom Leaf vs Derivatives, FDA Regulations, Usage Guidelines 01:26:59 Kratom, Alcohol Consumption, Respiratory Failure? 01:29:09 Kratom Alkaloids, Mood & Stimulant Effects, Multiple Pathways for Pain Relief 01:38:17 Plant Alkaloids & Chemical Defense, Kratom & Antifungal Alkaloids; Geckos 01:44:35 White, Red & Brown Vein Kratom, Leaf Processing; Terpenes 01:51:08 Kratom as an Anti-Depressant?; Discontinuing Kratom Use, Opioid Use 01:58:03 Kratom, Drug Interactions & Seizure, Opioids 02:01:51 Cacao Beans, Chocolate 02:09:34 Coca-Cola, Coca Plant & Cocaine, History of Soft Drinks 02:19:49 Career Journey, Pharmacy, Chemistry & Education, Lobelia 02:28:44 Nicotine; Natural Products & Career Journey, Salvia divinorum, Kratom 02:40:22 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow & Reviews, Sponsors, YouTube Feedback, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer & Disclosures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Defining Hospitality Podcast
Crafting Generational Memories - Derek De Salvia - Defining Hospitality - Episode #207

Defining Hospitality Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 48:01


“ It's a core tenant of who we are, and it's called put people first. We take care of our people.” Derek De Salvia, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Hilton Grand Vacations, joins Dan today to dive into the world of vacation ownership. The discussion covers the personal and professional aspects of hospitality, the evolution and benefits of the vacation ownership model, and how Hilton Grand Vacations differentiates itself in the industry, especially as one of Newsweek's Top Most Loved Workplaces. Derek shares insights into customer education, the impact of multi-generational ownership, the importance of team member engagement, and the adaptability of vacation ownership through economic cycles and evolving customer needs. The episode concludes with advice for potential customers and an invitation to experience Hilton Grand Vacations firsthand.Takeaways: Train your team to understand the difference between basic service and true hospitality. Aim for over-delivery on guest expectations.Highlight the importance of creating lasting memories for families, which can be a significant selling point for returning customers and multi-generational travel.Ensure guests are well-informed about how to maximize their memberships or stays through tutorials, seminars, and resources available on member pages.Foster a culture of hospitality among team members. When employees feel valued and cared for, they are more likely to pass on that sentiment to guests.Consider the long-term benefits and memories that owning a timeshare can create for your family across generations, rather than just focusing on the upfront costs and annual fees.Continuously gather and act on feedback from guest surveys and team member inputs to refine services and address any issues promptly.Quote of the Show:“We couldn't talk about hospitality and what that means to people if we didn't share that love and warmth of hospitality to our team members.” - Derek De SalviaLinks:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-desalvia-m-s-5a2b5521/ Website: https://www.hiltongrandvacations.com/ Shout Outs:0:59 - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/ 3:32 - Hilton https://www.hilton.com/en/ 7:59 - Danny Meyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Meyer 18:21 - Great Wolf Lodge https://www.greatwolf.com/ 18:25 - Blue Green Vacations https://www.bluegreenvacations.com/ 18:27 - Bass Pro https://www.basspro.com/home 

Figuring It Out With Grace & Kaylee
The Root Cause with Kristin Salvia

Figuring It Out With Grace & Kaylee

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 46:26


Your hair holds clues your blood work might miss. In this episode, we chat with Holistic Health Coach Kristin Salvia about how hair analysis can reveal mineral imbalances, chronic stress patterns, and hidden root causes behind fatigue, hormone issues, and more. Learn how to spot the signs, support detox gently, and rebalance your body from the inside out.Contact Kristin:

Auscultation
E51 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Auscultation

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 14:04


Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of excerpts from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas translated by Lowell Bair with reflection on alternative and complementary care, rosemary and plot devicesWebsite:https://anauscultation.wordpress.comWork:excerpts from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas translated by Lowell Bair“My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you've just heard. Your mother will give you the recipe for an ointment that a Gypsy woman taught her how to make: it miraculously heals any wound that doesn't reach the heart. Make the most of all these gifts, and have a long, happy life.”  “At five o'clock the next morning d'Artagnan got up, went to the kitchen, and, among  several other ingredients that history has not revealed to us, asked for some wine, olive oil, and rosemary. Then he made an ointment, which he put on his many wounds. He changed the compresses himself and would not allow the doctor to be called in. Thanks to the efficacy of the Gypsy ointment and also, perhaps, to the absence of the doctor, by that evening he was back on his feet, and by the next day he had almost completely recovered.”“[It was] an isolated, sinister-looking little house in the distance. […] the man whom Athos had found with such difficulty lead him into his laboratory, where he had been wiring together the clattering bones of a skeleton. The body was assembled and the head lay on the table. Everything else in the room showed that he was devoted to the study of the natural sciences: there were labeled jars with snakes in them; dried lizards in black wooden frames gleamed like cut emeralds; bundles of fragrant herbs, no doubt endowed with powers unknown to ordinary men, hung from the ceiling.” References:de Macedo LM, Santos ÉMD, Militão L, Tundisi LL, Ataide JA, Souto EB, Mazzola PG. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L., syn Salvia rosmarinus Spenn.) and Its Topical Applications: A Review. Plants (Basel). 2020 May 21;9(5):651.Cervantes Saavedra, M. d., & Grossman, E. (2005). Don Quixote. 1st Ecco pbk. ed. Ecco.Dumas, Alexandre, and Lowell Bair. The Three Musketeers. New York, Bantam Dell, 2004. 

Cream City Dreams
When JOY is in your job description with Steph Salvia of Joy Engine

Cream City Dreams

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 41:24


➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Another week, another inspiring Milwaukee woman. Today's guest is the woman in town that people turn to when they want uniquely creative, impossibly JOYFUL and unconventionally fun outdoor events. Steph Salvia is the Executive Director at Joy Engine, the small non-profit responsible for the incredibly joyful art instillations that pop up from time to time around Milwaukee (think the Cosmopods on the beaches last summer, the oversized swallows at Lake Shore State Park, and the gigantic full Moon over Catalano Square. Listen today as we talk about the mission of Joy Engine, why it's so needed in Milwaukee, and how YOU can join in on the fun. In addition to their accessible-for-ALL art installations, Joy Engine also provides 'Joy Grants' to promote local artists and creatives who have innovative ideas on spreading joy in the 414. 

TRiPPiN
I Was a Ceiling Fan for 15 Years | Salvia Trip Reports

TRiPPiN

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2025 28:02


In this episode I take you on a journey into the most bizarre corners of consciousness. This one dude lived 15 years as a ceiling fan.But that's just the beginning.We dive into a DMT trip where the useer experienced full-on nonduality, remembered multiple past lives, and dissolved into the raw code of the universe.But we start off the episode with an experience where someone became a painting in a museum for ten years. Frozen in time. Silent witness to passing strangers, curators and years of human confusion. Will you try Saliva after listening to this episode? We'll see...15 years as a ceiling fan: https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/1e5dmqb/salvia_trip_report_lived_15_years_as_a_ceiling/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button10 years as a painting in a museum: https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/1kmtv2v/i_smoked_salvia_and_spent_10_years_as_a_painting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_buttonPast lives on DMT: https://www.reddit.com/r/DMT/comments/1l9s3z7/i_think_i_met_myself_1000_lives_ago/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_buttonInstagram► instagram.com/imtrippin2hardContact me: imtrippin2hard@gmail.comThis video is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Always research, practice harm reduction and follow your local laws.© TRiPP!NSend me a message! Support the show

Gardeners' Question Time
Crowthorne: Caterpillars, Rusty Spots and Up-Cycled Objects

Gardeners' Question Time

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 42:58


Why do my ferns have rusty spots? Any tips for stopping caterpillars eating my cabbages? Have you upcycled any objects in the garden?Peter Gibbs and a panel of plant and gardening experts are in Crowthorne, Berkshire and offer advice to an audience of keen gardeners. Joining Peter are pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood, head gardener Matthew Pottage and proud plantswoman Christine Walkden.Later in the programme, house plant expert James Wong visits the Of The Oak exhibition at The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, which celebrates the Lucombe oak and oak trees as a vital hub of biodiversity. He's joined by visual artist Ersin Han Ersin and arborist Cecily Withall.Senior Producer: Daniel Cocker Junior Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly MailePlant List Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided. Q – The council have recently cleared a raised flowerbed at the front of the Morgan Centre. It previously had in it a giant prickly pyracantha. What would the panel suggest? (02'02")Matthew Smith – Callistemon rigidus, stiff bottlebrush Alstroemeria Indian Summer ('Tesronto'PBR) (Summer Paradise - Summer Series), Peruvian lily [Indian summer] Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna', Balkan clary 'Caradonna' Salvia rosmarinus Prostrata Group (Ro), rosemary Prostrata GroupQ - Why have my ferns developed rusty looking spots – is it caused by a disease? (06'31") Q – Any tips on growing miss Willmott's ghost? (09'08")Q – I have a bank of mature Heathers. Can I prune them as they're quite tall now or do I need to replace them as they get straggly? (13'13")Q- How do I stop caterpillars from eating my cabbages? (17'05")Feature – James Wong visits the 'Of the Oak' at The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, which celebrates the Lucombe oak. He's joined by Ersin Han Ersin and Cecily Withal (21'28”)Q - How do we encourage our Camellia to flower? (25'56")Q – I would like to plant some other more interesting climbing plants in a shady spot – what do the panel recommend? (29'13")Matthew Pottage – Hydrangea petiolaris, climbing hydrangea Hydrangea petiolaris 'Silver Lining'PBR hydrangea 'Silver Linng' Hedera colchica 'Dentata Variegata' (v), ivy 'Dentata Variegata'Christine Walkden – Ampelopsis quinquefolia, Virginia creeper Dactylicapnos scandens, yellow bleeding heart vinePippa Greenwood – Lonicera, honeysuckleQ – How often do Clematis Clematis' flower? (34'02")Q – Can the panel recommend any other ways to repurpose objects? (36'26")Q – I'd like you to recommend plants for a red hot, south facing gravel garden? (36'25")

Steamy Stories Podcast
Matching Day: Part 2

Steamy Stories Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025


Matching Day: Part 2The struggle for honesty, and the grace to accept..Based on a post by SmallTownPrincess, in 2 parts. Listen to the Podcast at Connected."So, tell me about your family, Mason," Livia said, tracing the lines of his palm with one finger. How long had they been out there? Although it felt like she'd been with Mason for only a few minutes, at most, she was deathly afraid that dawn would break soon, and they would have to part ways, sneaking back into their respective beds."Oh, they're nothing special," he said with a shrug. "My father's done pretty well for us with inter-community trade, and my mother's a self-proclaimed busybody. I have two little sisters who must hate me, for all the grief they cause me, and a cat that only eats because I ask him to every day."Livia sympathized with the cat; she would follow Mason to the ends of the earth, if he asked her to and really meant it. She wouldn't tell him that, though. He still believed that the answer to all their problems was to run off into the wilderness and never look back."They must love you a lot, to plan a big wedding for you - and build you a house! My father expected my match to do that with his own two hands.""Nah, they mostly just like being a spectacle in town, and a big wedding's the best way to ensure that everyone's talking about you. As for the house, I'd rather build it myself, honestly. I feel like a child with them paving the way for me like this.""I'll bet Salvia's bragging to everyone who'll listen about her fairy-tale wedding and big stone house - at eighteen!"Mason shrugged, looking stormy. "She keeps asking me when we can have our first baby boy. A baby? I'm not ready for a baby. I could go another decade before I would even think about having kids. I'll be nineteen when we get married, for gods' sake.""Nineteen?""I barely missed the cutoff for the last age group, so I think I'm probably the oldest in ours."A chill wind snuck down Livia's collar, and she shuddered, enjoying Mason's immediate response of wrapping his arms around her and pulling her back up against his chest. She could get used to being held that way. She lay her head back against his shoulder, and he sighed happily."Mason?""Hmm?""Do you still intend to marry her?"He shook his head, tousling her hair where his chin rested on it. "That big house will be ours - yours and mine - or they can give it to one of my sisters, for all I care. All I want is you."The chuckling scream of an owl broke the silence of the night, foreboding as the lustrous moon lay silver-lined shadows over the pair. "What are we going to do, Mason?""What do you mean?""What are you we going to do? I mean, you're supposed to get married in a month, to Salvia, and I'm supposed to spend the rest of my life unhappy and alone. People are going to notice if either of those things don't happen.""We could tell them that I prefer you to Salvia, " Mason said doubtfully, and Livia didn't even bother to reply. That was clearly not an option. "Or we could run, like I said originally.""There's nowhere to run," Livia murmured."Then, I suppose, this is our only option.""What is?""This. Meetings, like this.""What, you mean you want to keep meeting me in secret like this?""Sure, why not?""Won't someone in Salvia's house notice that you sneak out every night?" Mason was living with Salvia's family until his own house was built in Micrague, but, to Salvia's dismay, he was not taking advantage of sleeping just down the hall from her."Probably not, and even if they do, I told them the very first day I went home with her that sometimes I preferred to sleep outside, under the stars." He chuckled. "They probably think I'm quite odd, but it really is nice, sometimes, to just lay out here and look up at them."Livia snuggled closer to him and followed his eyes up to the dancing points of light in the rich blue-violet night. "But then, what happens next month, when your family send word for you to come home with her?""Hmm, the guys from Micrague probably don't remember what my match looked like, and you could answer to Salvia for the rest of your life, ""But the girls who matched those boys would know I didn't match you. They'll definitely remember that I was the one who ended up with no one to love but a dead boy I never met.""Gods, Livia, I don't know," he said, sounding frustrated. "What do you want me to say? That this can only go on until I'm called home?""Can't it?""Maybe it'll have to stop when I'm called home," he said, then shook his head fiercely. "No. No, one way or another, I'm going to marry you someday, Livia Russing."Hearing her last name from his lips sent a jolt of reality through her system. "I don't know your last name, Mason," she said, eyes still fixed on the glittering treasure of the heavens."It's Griersley. Don't let that be the deciding point against me when you're deciding whether or not you want to marry me," he said with a grin."It's not bad.""Is bad enough.""But I still don't know you well enough to say that I love you, Mr. Griersley," she said, grinning a little herself. "For all I know, you could be an axe murderer.""Well, you've been alone with me for hours now. Have you seen any signs that I'm going to be a danger to you?"She giggled, then settled into seriousness. "No, I don't think you would hurt me."He was still in a silly mood, grabbing her lightly around the neck and cackling evilly. "Now I've got you, princess!" he said in a nasal, grating voice. "You only thought I asked you here because I'm falling for you. In fact, I'm a hideous villain, bent on killing the loveliest and most brilliant girls in every community. You're my next victim!"Livia laughed, twisting to kiss him again. It felt more natural every time their lips met; after hours of it, she felt like she'd been born to kiss him.Dawn bleached the horizon and made the trees stand like motionless skeletons. Livia savored the taste of Mason's lips on hers as she clambered back into bed, wishing her quilt-shrouded mattress was half as comfortable as his arms.With the promise of seeing him again that night, having him all to herself for hours and hours, she could make it through another day. She just wished night would come a little sooner.There were moments, in the next few weeks, that made Livia wonder if the gods were making up for tormenting her with Bracken's death by saturating every moment with exhilarating euphoria.Mason, his face glowing with the radiance of the simple joy her presence brought him, danced with her in the moon's spotlight, humming a song he made up on the spot, her twirling feet sending leaves spinning all around them and making the breeze whirl and seethe with jealousy.His teeth stood like pearly bits of star against his tan skin as he laughed, dipping her low enough that her hair brushed the dirt forest floor, then bringing her lightly back to her feet with an easy, undemanding kiss.Combing his fingers through her hair, he poured nonsense pieces of poetry into the night, laughing occasionally at a particularly horrible rhyme, calling for her to contribute as well. But she wouldn't interrupt the uninhibited rhythm of his deep, pleasant voice; she let his words roll pleasantly over her soul while his fingers did the same to her scalp.Electricity lanced the night as their lips mimicked each other's shape, and each of them drew life from the other's wholehearted ardor.Livia whispered, "I do, after all.""Do what?""Love you."Mason wrapped around her, keeping her warm as her discarded clothes could not. His lips were drawing a lazy line of kisses from her forehead down her nose, over her lips and onto her neck. He sucked gently at the spot where her neck ended and shoulder began, then dusted kisses across her collarbones.His hands ran lightly along her sides, fingers brushing her skin from tits to hips and back again. She brushed her fingers through his hair, tugged on it in a mute request for him to make his way back to her mouth and kiss her as he had been for weeks, but his mouth was quite busy venturing to previously unexplored territory.Mason's lips pressed against her sternum, and the softness just above her belly button, and then the softness just below. He shifted back onto his heels so he could more easily massage his way down her thighs and to her knees. Hungrily, he eyed her body."Mason?" She could barely manage the breath to whisper his name. Something was making her chest tight, making it hard to bring in air; she realized after a moment that it was fear. That was the thing with Mason ,  he frightened her. Not because he would ever hurt her, but because he looked at life and asked for more than he was given. He pushed boundaries.His fingers were testing her boundaries now, working their way back up the inside of her legs and finding the intersection of her legs. He bent low, kissing her thigh just south of where his fingers rested, and his breath was both hot and cold on her body. It made her suddenly aware of a dampness there she did not recognize."Mason," she said again, more forcefully this time, and his eyes met hers."Yes?"She licked her lips, trembling as he continued to breathe on her slick folds. "Are you planning to do what I think you're planning to do?""Only if you want it," Mason replied. He stared up at her for at least a minute before she realized she was meant to respond positively or negatively, but she had no answer. How could she think with his mouth practically pressed to her lips there? "Livia? Do you want to?""I, " She observed the tenderness with which he was stroking her thigh, and melted a bit. "Yes. Please."Mason grinned. He leaned in just a bit closer and touched his lips to her, then slid his tongue between her folds, trailing it up to the nub of her clitoris ,  she gasped and tried to keep from shuddering, not wanting to break the contact ,  and then down until he circled her slit. His eyes sought hers, looking for approval; he must have seen it in her face, because he began to move his tongue in earnest, sliding it up and down, then delving into her opening as deeply as he could.Livia squeezed her eyes shut to concentrate on the feelings, but the intensity gave her a sense of vertigo so intense she almost felt herself sliding along the forest floor, as though the world had tipped off its axis. She clutched at Mason's shoulders to steady herself, digging her nails in harder than she realized.As Mason's warm mouth moved against her most sensitive places, she began to feel something completely new. It was a need she had never experienced before, an urgent and desperate desire so foreign that she could hardly guess how to fulfill it. She would have thought that Mason's current activity would relieve it somehow, but it was only sharpening the edge on her hunger."Mason, I need;” she started. She wasn't sure how to finish. Mason stopped immediately, sensing her distress, sitting up and wiping his mouth."What? What do you need?""I don't, know." She spoke quietly, distractedly. When Mason sat up, he revealed the entirety of his nude form, and Livia found her attention drawn to his sizable manhood, standing at attention. She stared, beginning to get an idea of what it was she needed.Picking up on her thoughts as though she was speaking them aloud, Mason abandoned his eager, if inexperienced, efforts to please her with his mouth and bent to press his body against hers again. He held himself just far enough off her that his weight would not oppress her, but the full length of his feverishly warm body covered hers, and the full length of his member pressed against her mound, pulsing slightly with each heartbeat.Slowly, painfully slowly, Mason slid his hips down, pulling his cock down her body until the head rested just where her lower lips parted, and then gravity and her own moisture pulled it the rest of the way. It came to rest just where it belonged, against her opening."Is this what you want?" Mason asked. With his mouth on her throat as it was, she felt more than heard his words.She nodded, eyes closed. "Yes."There was really no pain. Livia was surprised; she had heard from other girls that it was quite unpleasant the first time, sometimes even traumatic, but perhaps they had not had such tender first lovers, or perhaps they had not been so achingly, drenchedly eager to have their lover inside them. Livia hadn't even been aware of how badly she wanted Mason within her until he was, and all her tension drained out of her with a long sigh."It's perfect," she said, marveling at the fit of him in her. They were made for each other.For many long minutes they were motionless, sharing each other ,  they were no longer two people, but a single entity, joined intimately."I'm yours, Livia." Mason's voice was husky, and Livia saw that it was costing him something to remain still, not to just claim her from the inside out; she saw also in the way he wrapped his arms tightly around her and squeezed as if he would never let go that he was happy to remain frozen in place and share the moment, happy even as he strained for more."And I'm yours. Take me, Mason."And he did.Eventually they fell asleep, still connected, and didn't wake until larks' songs began to break the stillness of the air with the dawn.Just when she thought nothing could be more perfect, more beautiful, the gods realized their carelessness in letting too much rapture concentrate in just two small hearts, and they began to set things back to rights.Livia picked her way through the now-familiar path from her house to their meeting place in the trees, stepping lightly over fallen branches and dodging snags and thorns with ease. She'd sat at her window all afternoon, watching the sun in its path, wishing it haste as it progressed toward the horizon. Her mother wondered what had gotten into her, but didn't mourn the change. It had been painful to see her daughter in such misery after Matching Day.Just a little ways now, she thought cheerfully, wanting to whistle but deciding that would be imprudent. The fear of what they were doing didn't eat at her anymore, and she could almost forget, in the flawless moments with Mason, that there was anything wrong in what they did. When she saw Salvia, her face did not burn with blood, as it did at the beginning, and she did not hunch her shoulders against imagined accusations as she crossed the town now.At the very moment it always seemed she had been walking too far, that she must have passed the clearing completely and needed to turn around, she saw Mason.He was standing much as he had been the first night they'd met here, his hands balled into fists in his pockets, his eyes on the sky, standing in what she now recognized was his tensest stance, directly in the center of the clearing. He was wholly illuminated by a moon that approached full, and she could see the glistening tracks of tears on both cheeks, the slightest quiver to his bottom lip. Pain spiked just beneath her breastbone as she wondered distressedly what had upset him."Mason?" she called, tumbling out of the trees and into his arms. He barely caught her as she tripped over the undergrowth, landing ungracefully against his chest, and when she looked up into his face, she had never seen such despair."You came," he said brokenly. "I hoped you wouldn't.""What?"Rustling footsteps all around them told of the presence of others, and Mason's hands tightened on her upper arms as if he could somehow squeeze her out of sight.Livia's head swiveled frantically from side to side as she tried to see each face as they appeared, grimacing, out of the shadows; at the front of them all, she saw Salvia's triumphant countenance.And Mason's eyes never l

Steamy Stories Podcast
Matching Day: Part 1

Steamy Stories Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025


Matching Day: Part 1To love risks more than just her heart.Based on a post by SmallTownPrincess, in 2 parts. Listen to the Podcast at Connected.Girls spend their entire lives looking forward to the fateful Matching Day - and whether or not they will admit it, boys, too, have at least a healthy curiosity. It's so reassuring, knowing that in your eighteenth year, you and your age-mates will be paired off, brought together with another from their own community or a surrounding one that match them perfectly. No song-and-dance dating rituals, like the ones in the books Livia liked to read, no old maids, no riotous bachelors; just simple, comforting compatibility."Have you heard?" The hushed, conspiratorial tones issued from the pink-lacquered lips of Livia's best friend, Mara."What?" Livia's low-pitched voice always made her sound disinterested, but she paid close attention to Mara when her friend sounded this urgent."There was a big accident over in Micrague. One guy died!""Oh, that's terrible," Livia murmured, letting her eyelashes drop and rise again to half-mast in a brief show of empathy. It was all she had time for, as Mara leaned suddenly, ever more urgently forward, gripping Livia's arm in both hands."That's not the worst thing," she rolled on. "The guy who was killed? He just turned eighteen. That makes the numbers for tomorrow's Matching uneven!"Two full breaths, painful to the impatient Mara, passed before Livia spoke in response. "So, what, someone won't be paired? A girl will be left without her match?""Whoever matched with him will have no pair on Matching Day," Mara proclaimed ominously. Her eyes were wide and glittering with morbid excitement."What do they do about that?" It was unheard of, as far as Livia knew; there were always even numbers, always a perfect match for everyone.Mara gave an exaggerated shrug. "Maybe she'll never be matched."Livia was surprised into laughter. "They can't leave her without a match forever," she said with certainty. "Maybe they'll search out another community for someone that fits even better than that poor boy who died."Her reassuring confidence sent Mara, humming, away to terrify someone else with proclamations of an eternity alone for some poor girl. The thought nagged at Livia for the rest of the afternoon, though. What if he was matched with me?"Verin Massada," the stern voice called from the central platform, and a stick-thin brunette drifted toward the three steps that lifted her above the circle of impatient teenagers."Philip Pressia." The broad-shouldered redhead that stepped up to take Verin's hand smirked and bowed at the polite smattering of applause that ushered the happy new couple off the stage. Livia smiled approvingly; Verin needed a little more humor in her life.Livia watched each girl she'd grown up with walk back into the circle, shyly clutching the hand of her new mate, and twisted her skirt nervously in her fingers. It seemed forever before the 'R's were called, and the wad of boys brought in from all the different communities steadily shrank. She met the clear grey eyes of one of the remaining boys as Clanley Ritchell was met by a generic-looking, dark-haired boy, and she thought fleetingly, I hope I'm matched with him. He seemed to be thinking the same thing; his face fell a little when he was called up to greet a willowy blond on the dais."Danica Soress," the voice demanded, and Livia stood a little straighter with a sharp intake of breath. Had she been skipped?All the vague, incoherent fears that had accompanied Mara's morbid pronouncement coursed through Livia, charged with shame as some girls recognized the omission and turned to look at her with expressions of varying pity. Livia felt on the edge of tears.She saw the blond - that wretched Salvia - pull the grey-eyed boy down to whisper cruelly in his ear and point in Livia's direction, and she contemplated melting into the dirt.With the blood roaring loudly in her ears, she heard no other names called, and stared fixedly at a nondescript blade of grass in front of her to avoid the glances that were flickering toward her. How can this be? she thought frantically. How can I not have a match?"Livia, what's going on?" Mara's face held ghoulish curiosity with only an edge of concern for her friend, and Livia couldn't deal with her. She turned without a word and marched to the fountain a good distance away from the platform. People were breaking off now, finding secluded spots to get to know this person with whom they'd be partnered forever. Livia, wrapping her arms tightly around her gut, had never felt so alone.How could she have lost a lifetime of companionship without ever tasting it? It was too, too cruel. What right did that boy have to take away everything in one fell swoop? How could he die? She wanted to shake her fist at the heavens, demand an explanation, but she just trailed her fingers through the rippling water in the fountain basin, swallowing hard against the wave of emotions that threatened to show itself grotesquely in her features."His name was Bracken, if that helps," said a voice behind her, and she jumped, throwing water onto her dress. She turned to see that grey-eyed boy approaching, and she prepared herself for the humiliation she was sure to experience at his hands; he had, after all, been matched like everyone else, and she was alone - possibly forever.He did not mock her, though; his eyes held the soft, cautious understanding of someone who pitied another, but was not sure whether that person desired sympathy or not. When she said nothing, he shrugged self-consciously. "Sorry, I realize you might not have wanted to know. I just, he was my best friend. I thought if you did want to know about him, I'd at least let you know who you could ask."A flood of gratitude made it temporarily impossible for her to speak, and then she forced a smile. "I think I'd like to know," she said hesitantly. She wasn't sure; would it be better to know nothing about what she'd never have, or to at least have pleasant thoughts about what could've been? "Can I ask you something now?""Absolutely.""Would I have liked him?"The boy nodded. "I think so. He was quiet at first, it took a while to get to know him. But once you did, there was no one you trusted more." He added, with the hesitation of an afterthought but the seriousness of something he'd intended to say all along, "Seeing you here, there's no doubt that he would have liked you."He gave Livia one last smile and lay his hand over hers for a moment, ignoring the water droplets that sat on it like dew. For a warm second, she felt a rush of what it might have been like to have someone get to know her intimately over a lifetime, to love and understand her and for her to love back, and then the grey-eyed boy was walking with wide strides back to Salvia, and nothing but a hollow sadness remained beneath her breastbone.Livia hated them. All of them.The girls with their softly rolling curls, teased and coached for hours in order to look casually delicate when the boys, their shirts tucked in and their shoes shined, arrived at their doorsteps carrying one or two or twenty flowers in one hand and a shining invitation in the other. They walked with springing steps the short distance to the gathering hall in the center of town, hand in hand or arm in arm, and Livia wanted to throw rocks at the whole lot of them.She had been invited, sort of, to join in on the festivities. The community officials, not sure what to do with the first single person over eighteen in a century, had hesitantly allowed for her participation in all the new couples' activities; so far, she had partaken in none of them.Desperately, she wanted to be a part of the revelry, but she could not force herself to walk into the rooms full of happy girls and their happy boys, and have nothing herself. Her mother, unable to comfort her, had begged her to go to the dance. It was the last night before all the boys would be returning to their own communities, taking their matches with them. It was the last night she would seek Mara, who had paired with a boy from Onek.And she'd tried: she'd gotten dressed, piled her hair up on top of her head and pulled her elbow-length gloves on, but nothing could motivate her to step outside her house as streams of giggling lovebirds trickled by on the way to the hall."Go, Livia," her mother said, coming up behind her with a basket of laundry on her hip. "You should at least go long enough to say goodbye to Mara.""I can't, Mama. Think of how they'll look at me!"Her mother bent Livia's head down to kiss her on the forehead. "It's not your fault, Neinei, and they know that. They feel bad for you. They all want to see you. The world didn't end when that poor boy died.""Bracken," Livia said defiantly. Her mother had refused to say his name, insisting that it was better for Livia to know nothing about what she had lost.Patting her daughter's shoulder, she adjusted her basket and turned to leave. "Go."Livia had retreated around the side of the gathering hall, standing just outside the golden pool of light that poured like honey from the windows. Sobs caught in her throat and were choked down, unvoiced, as she watched Mara and Verin and Danica and dozens of others receive chaste pecks from shy boys as they spun by in their brightly-colored dresses, waving fluted, bubbling glasses and laughing with abandon.And there, the grey-eyed boy, Bracken's best friend, was seated quietly with his hands folded in his lap, listening politely to an enthusiastic rendition of some trivial event or another by Salvia. It was always easy to tell when she was excited about something, as her arms pinwheeled and hands fluttered with no thought to how the gestures went along with the story.He glanced up, and his eyes met, for a moment, Livia's. He looked surprised to see her there, and then a bit sad, and then his gaze drifted back to Salvia, who had grabbed his knee in her earnestness.This infinitesimal rejection, the refusal to even meet her eyes for more than a moment, pushed Livia over the edge. Tears, burning like acid, washed over her face, and she stumbled away from the window, crying with pitiful lack of restraint.She staggered into the sparse forest, the trees providing scattered shelter from curious eyes, if any should choose to drift away from the golden party, and the darkness of the night fit her mood, a strangely soothing thought."Are you alright?" For the second time, the grey-eyed boy's voice jolted her out of her own misery. She would not face him; not now, when her eyes were puffy and irritated, her nose red and her face streaked with dirty tear tracks. He would see her and compare her to Salvia, and she would fall short; she could not handle right now seeing him weigh her that way and find her lacking.His hand on her back was another surprise, and then both his hands weighing down on her shoulders as he stepped closer behind her. "Hey," he said gently. "Everything will turn out fine. Maybe, maybe you'll find someone better than Bracken could have been for you."She forgot her resolution not to face him then, turning toward him with her eyes narrowed to angry slits. "How could I, when everyone is paired already? Besides, I had my chance - he just managed to get himself killed before I could even meet him!" The words came out much harsher than she intended, and the young man in front of her actually took a step back from her ferocity, hunching like she'd landed a blow to his gut. "I'm sorry," she said immediately, automatically. "I shouldn't have said that. He was your friend, ""It's alright," he said, giving her a ghost of a smile and waving his hand with a nonchalance that didn't show in his eyes. He had that gentle look of quiet appreciation of life that came to some people who lost loved ones, but knew that lost friend would be offended if they did not continue to smile. "I know it's probably really hard on you, seeing everyone so, happy." He trailed off, not looking happy in the least."Speaking of happy people, shouldn't you be in there with Salvia?"His face took on the contemplative expression of someone deciding how to phrase something delicately. "Salvia, she's not quite what I expected to find, on my Matching Day. She's, ""Lively?" Livia suggested. "Brazen? Exuberant?" obnoxious," the grey-eyed boy said decisively. "I don't like her at all."Livia smirked. "Well, you have to like her. She's your match. You love her."He shook his head. "No," he said quietly. "I don't.""But she's your perfect match," Livia insisted."But what if she's not?"Livia heard her heart beat twice before she asked, "What?""What if Salvia is not the perfect girl for me? What if the girl that I would love more than anyone else in the world couldn't be matched with me because, there was someone else our age who she would like a little bit better?""That doesn't even make sense," Livia said, shaking her head. "The matches have always been perfect: even numbers, complete compatibility;”"But this time they messed up, right? I mean, you should know. You're the person who's affected more than anyone else.""Well, yes, but;”"So why isn't it possible that they aren't right on everything else? What if they didn't match this girl with me because she would love this other guy more?""Well, so, maybe they did. But if you would love her so much, surely you would want to see her happy, with the man she was meant to be with, right?""Yes," he said, very seriously. "I would want to see her happy.""Then you should leave her in peace with the person she was matched with, and focus on learning to love the girl you were paired with."The interminable silence stretched between them as the grey-eyed boy stared down at the leafy ground and Livia watched the way his hair blew across his forehead in the breeze. At last he said, "What if she wasn't matched with anyone?"Livia's heart sped up, beating double time as she realized what he'd been saying all along, what she'd been too dim to put together until he'd spelled it out. "But you are matched," she said numbly. "Salvia has you."He leaned dangerously far forward, his lips brushing her ear as he whispered into it, "I don't want Salvia."Livia shrank back, confused. These were dangerous words he uttered, dangerous thoughts. People were matched with the people they were meant to be with. How could there be any other way? They couldn't be wrong; there'd been no divorce, no infidelity, no broken hearts in the decades people had been paired this way. Surely it was the right way. It had to be."I don't even know your name," Livia said resolutely, as though that settled the matter and proved him wrong. She pushed against his chest to force him back, feeling the blazing heat of his heart under her palm."It's Mason," he said quietly, and his words had the sound of discussion-ending power to them too. Livia was conscious of the fact that she had not moved her hand from his chest; her fingers curled slightly, enjoying the silky feeling of his shirt over his skin, and the warmth that radiated from his flesh."Go back to Salvia, Mason," she whispered. She realized she was shaking from head to toe, and not from cold. Here was everything she had ever wanted, everything she had imagined when she thought of her Matching Day, but he was not hers. "Please, go back to the party."With a sigh, Mason touched her cheek briefly, the lightest of butterfly wing contacts, and then he turned and vanished into the night, not toward the party, but deeper into the forest. Livia stood for a long time without moving, her mind racing and her heart pounding like a runner's feet, and then she walked, slowly, directly away from Mason."You didn't come to the party last night," Mara said, breaking the silence that stood like frosted glass between her and Livia."No." Livia had gotten no sleep the night before; lying in bed, replaying continually the frightening moments with Mason, her heart had never slowed."Well, I just wanted to say goodbye, " Mara twisted her hands for a moment before wrapping Livia up in a warm and desperate hug. "I'm sorry, Lenny. I'm going to miss you so much."The tension between them melted, and Livia returned the hug tightly, sighing. "It's hard to believe I'll never see any of you again - all the girls I've known all my life! Except for Maize and Crista, they're the only ones who matched with boys from here, right? And I don't really even know them.""Well, you'll see Salvia too, for a little while."Breathe in. Breathe out. "Why's that?""Oh, that fellow she paired with - Mason, isn't it? - his parents have some sort of huge wedding ceremony planned, and they've got a house mostly built for the two of them. They told him to stay here a while, get to know his partner's family for a bit, let her spend some more time with them, and then head back once the house and all the plans were done."Wedding were an extravagance, a luxury that most people went without, especially if they didn't have the means to make it a massive event. The fact that Mason's family was going to such lengths meant they must be well off indeed."So Mason, and Salvia, will be around for a while?""Yeah, at least a month, I'd say."A buzzing numbness in her extremities made it difficult for Livia to respond. She had thought Mason would be gone today, that she'd never have to see him and Salvia together again. But they would be here for a month,"Speak of the devil," Mara said cheerfully, skipping over to greet Salvia as she pranced up the path with Mason's hand gripped in her own vice-like claw. The dark circles under his eyes said that he, too, had had a night with little sleep.

Customer Service Podcast
204. The Worst Dressed Sport, Supreme Hats, & Smoking Salvia

Customer Service Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 96:10


Timothy & Chase talk about the worst dressed sport, Supreme hats, & smoking salvia.Follow:Customer Service Podcast on Instagram @customerservicepod Canoe Club on Instagram & YouTube @shopcanoeclub ⁠www.shopcanoeclub.com

Gardeners' Question Time
Wokingham Borough: Pet Friendly Gardens, Homemade Compost and Silly Advice

Gardeners' Question Time

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 42:43


What's your recommended recipe for homemade seed compost? What makes a dog friendly garden? What is the most inappropriate piece of garden advice that you've received?Peter Gibbs and the panel offer advice to an audience of keen gardeners in the borough of Wokingham. Joining Peter are house plants expert Anne Swithinbank, garden designer Bunny Guinness, and proud plantsman Matthew Biggs.Later in the programme, for Plant Health Week, Kirsty Wilson visits the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to meet biosecurity officer Matt Elliot and discover how new pests and diseases are threatening our gardens — and what we can do to fight back.Producer: Matt Smith Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly MaileA Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4Plant List Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided. Q - Do the panel have any favourite help or design features in their gardens made by their pets? (01'45")Q- Could you give me some top tips on growing Dahlias? (05'40")Q- How do you manage a wildflower area after the first year of flowering? (10'18")Feature – Kirsty Wilson and Biosecurity Officer of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh discuss how we can protect our plants from new pests and diseases (14'20")Q- My Fatsia Bush has flowered – do I prune it back or leave the fruits for the birds? (19'30")Q - Which exciting new plants should we be looking forward to growing in the south-east of England? (22'31")Bunny Guinness – Diospyros virginiana (F), common persimmon Diospyros 'Nikita's Gift' (F), Nikita's Gift Persimmon. Salvia involucrata 'Hadspen', rosy-leaf sage ‘Hadspen'Matthew Biggs – Salvia officinalis 'Bicolor', sage 'Bicolor' Echium Echium wildpretii, tower of jewels Echium pininana giant viper's buglossAnne Swithinbank – Leonotis Leonurus, lion's tail Dictamnus albus, burning bush Eriobotrya, loquatQ - What is your recommended recipe for homemade seed compost? (28'00")Q - I have a small starter allotment; can the panel advise me on how to make the most of my small plot? (32'10")Bunny Guinness – Onion Garlic LettuceMatthew Biggs – Lettuce, fresh beetroot, fresh carrots, finger carrots Baby leaf Spinach radish courgettes French beans Runner beans Anne Swithinbank – Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum, florence fennelQ - What is the most inappropriate piece of garden advice that you've received, and did you follow it? (37'24")

Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley
Episode 171: Flower Power Retrospective (Part 1)

Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 20:26


Welcome to another Retrospective series consisting of previously aired short segments on similar topics packaged together for easier listening. This retrospective is called Flower Power which is all about how to select, grow and care for a wide range of flowers. Master Gardener Volunteer, Linda Levitt provides lots of practical tips on how to best select, plant, and care for a wide range of flowers. The first segment focuses on the difference between Annuals, Perennials, and Biennials. Annual plants complete their life cycle, from germination to seed production, in a single growing season and then they die. They tend to have numerous and continuous blooms from spring or early summer until frost and devote more energy to see production than roots when compared to perennials. Some well known annuals include: pansies, marigolds, lantana, super bells, garden mums, Zinnias, alyssum, and nasturtium. Annuals are a great way to experiment. maintain constant color, and refresh your garden year after year. By contrast, perennial plants regrow every spring, but have a shorter blooming period. By contrast, perennial plants will continue to grow each year. Only the top portion of the plant dies annually in the fall, maintaining their growing root system allowing reblooming in the spring. These plants tend not to bloom the first year of their life. Typically a perennial plant has a root system that spreads outwards and deep and will benefit from being divided after a couple of years. Perennials should last at least three years. They have a shorter bloom time than annuals so think about pairing different perennials that bloom at different times during the growing season. And pairing with some annuals for constant color. Perennials can be planted from bulb, seed or plant. Some commonly known perennials are coral bells, purple, coneflower, daffodils, bleeding, heart and daylilies. A biennial plant completes its growth cycle in two seasons but does not bloom until the second year. It drops its seeds after blooming and in two years, you should have new blooms. Some well known examples of biennial plants are poppies, sweet William and foxglove. In the next segment, Linda talks about the beautiful and versatile Lantana plant. This is an easy care, versatile, and colorful plant that is known for its long bloom season, from late spring to first frost. There are about 150 species within the Verbena family. The plant is considered an annual plant in colder climates and a perennial plant in more tropical environments. Lantana can propagate from seed or stem cuttings and should be planted at least two weeks after the danger of frost. It thrives in hot dry spots, and in all soil types that are well drained, as long as it has enough water to get established. Lantana blooms best in full sun. As an annual it can grow three to four feet tall and one to three feet wide in just one season. Some species can grow upright and tall providing great color in your garden or then can trail, spilling over in a hanging basket or container. The tiny flowers appear in clusters called umbels that are one to two inches across in colors that range from vivid reds and oranges to muted shades of coral, pink and peach and they don't have to be deadheaded. This plant is continuously blooming with foliage that is dark green or variegated, rough, textured and oval in shape. The plants attract pollinators, butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. Some plants to consider using as companion plants include Angelonia, Pentas, sun-loving Coleus, Superbells, Petunias and Salvia. They all have similar growing conditions and will do so well with Lantana. In summary, theyare beautiful, colorful, ever-blooming plants that require little or no maintenance when planted in the right conditions. This episode concludes with another short segment covering the hellebore, which is called the 'harbinger of spring'. It provides nectar for emerging pollinators when there are so few nectar sources available. Some of the plants are well-known by the names Winter Rose, Christmas Rose or Lenten Rose, but they have no relation to the rose family. These plants are surprisingly frost resistant and some are even evergreen, keeping their color during the winter. Many species are toxic to animals and tend to be deer resistant. They thrive in partial shade, especially at the woodland edge. They will grow in dense shade but may not produce many flowers. However, they have been known to adapt to more light if necessary. Limda recommends that you plant hellebores in moist well-draining soil that has been supplemented with compost. They prefer soil rich in organic material and they will thrive if you plant them under trees, but note that Hellebores do not like hot summer sun. Plant in the spring or early fall as long as the ground is frost free. Once established, the plant will grow about 18 inches high with flowers that consist of five large petals, which are actually sepals, that form to protect the reproductive parts of the plant. For most species, the flowers are drooping and falling downward, so a woodland slope would be an ideal location. Some varieties however, have been bred with upright flowers and are used in spring bouquets. After a few years, a mature plant in the right conditions can produce 50 or more flowers. You should mulch every year in the fall and do allow fallen leaves to act as natural mulch and soil conditioner. Hellebores are hardy, long-loved perennials that if grown in ideal conditions will naturalize and spread. They are tough, cold hardy, deer or rabbit resistant and easy to grow, providing the possibility of evergreen foliage for year round interest. Host: Jean Thomas Guest: Linda Levitt Photo by: Tim Kennelty Production Support: Linda Aydlett, Deven Connelly, Teresa Golden, Tim Kennelty, Xandra Powers, Annie Scibienski, Jean Thomas Resources

'Y esto no es todo'
Milei y la reducción de la pobreza. Qué viene para Marine Le Pen. Cory Booker y su discurso

'Y esto no es todo'

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 16:44


Hablamos en Washington con Alejandro Werner, director del Georgetown Americas Institute, y en Buenos Aires con Agustín Salvia de la Universidad Católica Argentina; en París con Gaspard Estrada de la Unidad del Sur Global del London School of Economics, y en Madrid con el periodista Juan Carlos Iragorri

The Jersey Girl
Self love is a journey not a destination feat. Julia Salvia

The Jersey Girl

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 33:54


Hi Jersey Girls!! I am so excited to share this episode with you! I have never gone into the topic of self love but I was so honored to dive into this topic with Julia Salvia! Julia not only is the queen of self love but she also has so many passion projects and does social media full time! I loved hearing her story and chatting everything from being a full time content creator to her event Bloom! (P.S. Tickets are on sale for it right now, check out her insta for more info) Grab your coffee and settle in! xoxoYour HostInsta: @beautywithjulia and @thejerseygirlpod

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
Dopey 511: Hamilton Morris, DMT, Fentanyl, Benzos “I bought a Ziploc bag full of pure diazepam from China for $100. It was 10 grams of beige, sparkling powder, I kept it in my pocket like mints.”

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 156:15


This week on Dopey! After years of Pursuit we finally got chemist, author, TV host, Documentarian and Director - Hamilton Morris of Vice and HBO's trailblazing show Hamilton's Pharmacopia to come to my Dad's house! He tells of how he became a PSYCHONAUT and also why he hates the term PSYCHONAUT among tons of other stuff psychedelic and chemical.  PLUS Adversity Advantage host Doug Bopst is back to talk New Years Resolutions, fitness and more! On this brand new episode of the good old Dopey Show! There are a few Dopeywood Tickets left: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/1484803 Join Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Here is what AI said: Dopey Podcast Episode Show Notes:

Smarter Not Harder
Healing Together with Nature's Bounty (ft. Dr. Chris McCurdy) | SNH Podcast #83

Smarter Not Harder

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 71:09


In this episode of the Smarter Not Harder Podcast, Dr. Chris McCurdy discusses his journey into pain management research, the complexities of natural products like kratom and salvia, the potential risks and benefits of kratom use, and his latest work on exploring coca leaves. Join us as we delve into: + Advances in natural pain relief and opioid alternatives. + The intriguing effects of kratom and its alkaloids on human health. + Balancing traditional use with modern-day concerns around herbal supplements. + What's next in the world of ethnobotanical research and drug development. This episode is for you if: - You've heard about kratom and want to learn how it works. - You're curious about pain management and addiction science. - You're interested in the balance between natural plant benefits and potential dangers. - You want to hear from a leading researcher on ethno-pharmacological plants. - You're intrigued by the future of natural alternatives to opioids. You can also find this episode on… YouTube: https://youtu.be/4Y7Axu3Zu8A Find out more about Dr. Chris McCurdy: Website: https://pharmacy.ufl.edu/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-mccurdy-bsph-phd-faaps-9b20542/ Learn more about Smarter Not Harder: Website: https://troscriptions.com/blogs/podcast | https://homehope.org Instagram: @troscriptions | @homehopeorg Get 10% Off your purchase of the Metabolomics Module by using PODCAST10 at https://www.homehope.org Get 10% Off your Troscriptions purchase by using POD10 at https://www.troscriptions.com Get daily content from the hosts of Smarter Not Harder by following @troscriptions on Instagram.

A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan
782 - Inflating the Pigeon

A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 114:14


And it's vacation time. Thanks for watching ya'll! - d - Dr. Chanlate discusses BudDocs, medical marijuana, telemedicine options, and same-day appointments. - Mention from the "injured on the go, just call Mo's Studio." - Overview of "Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan." - Brendan O'Connor talks about his work at thebungalower.com and Orlando Magazine. - Impact of AI on journalism and traditional media. - Challenges of using AI in coding and website management. - Legal issues around copyright and photo use. - Dan's humorous urologist visit. - Brendan's medical emergency and ambulance use. - Discussion on anxiety, Kratom, dietary habits, and Salvia effects. - Brendan's inflatable pigeon art project for Creative City Project in Orlando. - Funding from the downtown development board for art initiatives. - Logistical challenges of rooftop pigeon installations. - Government critique in art funding vs. support for local businesses. - Rental assistance for downtown Orlando businesses. - Cultural significance of pigeons in urban settings. - Brendan's heat-related hallucination and alleyway conditions. - Hospital care for Brendan after collapsing from heat exhaustion. - Enhancing downtown pigeon installation with interactive QR codes. - Foam party concept for pigeon art to increase engagement. - Theft concerns and ironic pigeon-themed pub crawl idea. - Critique of aimless downtown art projects. - Details on Adopt-a-Swan program and otter relocation in Orlando. - Branding ideas for swans and dissatisfaction with Orlando's city flag. - Proposals for better artistic installations, like a downtown ball pit. - Introduction to "Skibbity Toilet," a Gen Alpha cultural hit. - Mortgage services and home buying program promotions. - Analysis of modern vs. nostalgic TV humor. - Deep dive into "Skibbity Toilet" and its class struggle narrative. - Michael Bay's interest in "Skibbity Toilet" for potential expansion. - Invisible Narratives and former Paramount CEO's involvement in Skibbity Toilet. - Discussion on "Machinima" and storytelling through video game art. - Children's engagement with Skibbity Toilet and its brand influence. - Michael Bay's speculation on Skibbity Toilet's potential. - Ethical considerations of monetizing children-targeted content like Skibbity Toilet. - Viral content creation techniques and narrative coherence in YouTube videos. - Reflections on viral success, upcoming films like Deadpool/Wolverine, and practical effects in horror. - Theories on Olympic cheating involving drones in Canada vs. New Zealand soccer. - Historical and modern smoking policies on flights and the notion of "Smokers Express." - Benefits of trade education vs. traditional college, with a focus on apprenticeship programs. Impact of conglomerates on small businesses and local spending benefits. ### **Connect & Follow:** - [Website](https://tomanddan.com/) - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tomanddanlive) - [Facebook](https://facebook.com/amediocretime) - [Instagram](https://instagram.com/tomanddanlive) **Listen & Laugh:** - [Apple Podcasts: A Mediocre Time](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-mediocre-time/id334142682) - [Google Podcasts: A Mediocre Time](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2FtZWRpb2NyZXRpbWUvcG9kY2FzdC54bWw) - [TuneIn: A Mediocre Time](https://tunein.com/podcasts/Comedy/A-Mediocre-Time-p364156/) **Corporate Comedy:** - [Apple Podcasts: A Corporate Time](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-corporate-time/id975258990) - [Google Podcasts: A Corporate Time](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2Fjb3Jwb3JhdGV0aW1lL3BvZGNhc3QueG1s) - [TuneIn: A Corporate Time](https://tunein.com/podcasts/Comedy/A-Corporate-Time-p1038501/) **Exclusive Content:** - [Join BDM](https://tomanddan.com/registration) **Merchandise:** - [Shop Tom & Dan](https://tomanddan.myshopify.com/)

Dr. Ruscio Radio: Health, Nutrition and Functional Medicine
913 - The Best Natural Treatments for Candida (Science-based)

Dr. Ruscio Radio: Health, Nutrition and Functional Medicine

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 30:15


Not seeing improvement on your current candida protocol?  You may find better results through natural remedies! In this episode, I'll name the most effective herbal supplements, recommended dosages, and the best lifestyle habits that will help to heal candida overgrowth. Watch now! Candida Diet Handout: https://drruscio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Candida-Diet-Handout-2024.pdf