Podcast appearances and mentions of Simon Birch

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I'm the great Bambino! Michelle and Seth wander down to The Sandlot to discuss baseball, summer and why Dennis Leary was the scariest movie dad of all time. Also: Michelle tears up, Seth is afraid of treehouses, the beauty of 90s sports movies for kids, Simon Birch, our Smores process and believing the world was a different place when you are a kid. Check it out! Ad-free versions of all of our episodes are available on our Patreon When you sign up you also get access to our bonus shows, Discord server, decoder ring, shout out on the show AND you get to vote on monthly episodes and themes. That's a lot for only $5 a month! For more info and to sign up visit us on Patreon You can also give a Movie Friends subscription here: Gift a Movie Friends Subscription! Visit our website Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Fill out our listener survey

All across Britain, in some of the wildest places you can find, is a network of mountain huts - called bothies. But unlike shelters found in the rest of the world, these were never built for walkers. Former schoolhouses, farmsteads, gamekeepers lodges, coastguards lookouts and miners bunkhouses, there are around 100 buildings (across Scotland, England and Wales) left open for walkers and climbers to use - free of charge. For the last 60 years they have been in the care of the Mountain Bothies Association - an organisation who maintain and look after them and are funded by donation and run by volunteers. To celebrate their diamond anniversary, adventurer Phoebe Smith (who wrote the first ever guidebook to bothies 10 years ago) takes her mum friend Ellie to stay in her first one and speaks to the MBA's chair Simon Birch about what changes have occurred over the last 60 years.Also coming up:Octogenarian publisher Hilary Bradt discusses how travel has changed since her first adventures in 1969Travel Hack: How to make friends on the road - safelyTop 10 places to escape the crowds around the worldMeet Katie Wignall, the guide telling the stories of forgotten women in LondonAll the kit you need for wild swimmingNan Shepherd, author of The Living Mountain is our Wander Woman of the Month SPECIAL OFFER: Use code WanderWoman at the checkout on the Cicerone website to get 15% off the Book of the Bothy and all of their guidebooks.Contact Wander Womanwww.Phoebe-Smith.com; @PhoebeRSmith

Podcast for a deep examination into the career and life choices of Eddie Murphy & Jim Carrey. The hosts take a long, much more interesting, detour during their discussion of this week's film to navigate the highs and lows of the recent Oscar nominations. Meanwhile Lev thinks he accidentally invented a cure for the common cold while making breakfast. Will the FDA approve his new wonder drug? Find out on this week's episode of 'What the Hell Happened to Them?' Email the cast at whathappenedtothem@gmail.com Disclaimer: This episode was recorded in January 2025. References may feel confusing and/or dated unusually quickly. 'Simon Birch' is available on DVD & VHS (don't bother asking about Blu-ray): https://www.amazon.com/Simon-Birch-Joseph-Mazzello/dp/0788815466/ Music from "Short People" by The King's Singers   Artwork from BJ West   quixotic, united, skeyhill, vekeman, murphy, carrey, versus, vs, simon, birch, frasier, platt, judd, domingo, sweet, oscars, hereafter, anderson,

Numbers 21:4-9,4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6 Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.What do you want from me?!This is a question that's probably been asked more than once, but I'm thinking about a scene in one of my favorite movies, Simon Birch. It's a good movie; you should go watch it; I won't ruin it for you; but there's this one scene when Simon, a 12-year-old kid, is visiting the grave of his best friend's mom. It's in the evening and Simon is alone at her grave; he is blaming himself for her death; and his best friend, Joe, is looking for him. And in the distance, Joe is calling his name, Simon! Simon! And Simon hears his name but thinks it's God talking to him, so he looks up in the sky and says, “I'm right here. What do you want from me?” It's a great scene.Have you ever asked God that question? You ever wondered it?I think we all have — or we will — come to certain places at certain times in our lives where we just want to know as plainly as possible, “God, what do you want from me?”Well, this morning, I think we find the answer to that question in Numbers 20–21, and put most simply here it is: God wants your faith.Whoever you are, if you want to live, God wants your faith. And in today's sermon, I want to show you how Numbers 20–21 make this clear. Let's pray:Father in heaven, we ask now, with your Word open before us, that you would help us open wide our hearts to you and what you want to do in these moments. Speak to us and accomplish what you will, in Jesus's name, amen.The first thing made clear in these chapters is …1. God wants your faith whoever you are.Now a lot has happened since the last time I preached. It was only three Sundays ago, but we've covered Chapters 13–19, which means almost 40 years have passed in this story. Throughout those years, the people of Israel have been in the wilderness of Paran as the consequence of God's judgment. And that wilderness judgment, remember, goes back to Chapters 13–14.Chapters 13–14 are really important in the Book of Numbers. Back in Chapter 13, remember, God tells Moses to send 12 spies into the Promised Land, one spy for each of the tribes of Israel, and these spies were supposed to go into the Promised Land to see if the land was good or bad, and if the people who lived in the land were strong or weak. Well, after 40 days of this spy mission, the 12 spies return to Moses and the people, and they all said the land was good, but 10 of the spies said the people in the land were too strong for Israel to overcome. They said that if Israel attempted to go into the land, they would be destroyed. But then two of the spies, Caleb and Joshua, disagreed and said, No, we shouldn't be scared! Let's take the land. God will give it to us.And so, of the 12 spies, the two spies Caleb and Joshua represented faith and courage, the 10 other spies represented unbelief and fear — and the people sided with the 10. All the people rebel. They don't trust God. And so God brings judgment. He says that every person who is part of the people of Israel from 20 years old and upward — everyone except Caleb and Joshua — are gonna die in the wilderness. God sentences the people to 40 years in the wilderness — one year for each day the spies were spying out the Promised Land. That's what has been going on from Chapters 15–19.Miriam and Aaron DieAnd we see at the beginning of Chapter 20 that this 40 years is coming to a close. We are now in the first month of the 40th year, which means we are about to turn the page. A transition is coming. We see the hint of this transition right away in the death of Miriam, Moses's sister, in Chapter 20, verse 1. The story doesn't elaborate anything here, it's just one sentence, but this is important. Y'all find this sentence with me. Chapter 20, verse 1. And the very end of verse 1: “And Miriam died there and was buried there.”Why is this important? Well it's because Miriam, along with Moses and Aaron, were leaders among the people — Aaron was the high priest, and Miriam was a prophetess and song leader. Well, Chapter 20 starts with her death, now look how Chapter 20 ends. Skip to Chapter 20, verse 28. I think you need to see this too. Chapter 20, verse 28,“And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain.”So Chapter 20 starts and finishes with “And Miriam died there…” and “And Aaron died there…” There's been a lot of death over these almost 40 years, but now it's the leaders. Two of these leaders die; they don't enter the Promised Land; now only Moses remains — but we need to look closer at Moses in Chapter 20.Moses Does Not Make ItChapter 20 is where we find the famous tragic story of Moses striking the rock. It's almost an exact repeat of a story in Exodus 17, and it starts with the same situation we've seen over and over again with these people: The people have a need; they think God won't meet the need; so what do the people do? — They complain. They whine. They grumble. They shake their fists at God. And Moses says, God, what do I do?Well, in Exodus 17 when the people were thirsty and did this, God told Moses to strike a rock, which made water gush out, and God provided for the people in this amazing way. But here, in Numbers 20, verse 8, look what God says to Moses. We need to read this carefully. Numbers 20:8, “…and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8 Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.”Y'all double-check me here, but does anybody see the word “strike” in Numbers 20, verse 8? …God tells Moses to speak to the rock. Agree?Well look what happens in verse 10. Moses got the people together and said, verse 10:…“Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?” And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.And it seems like, Oh, okay. That worked out. But then look what God says in verse 12: And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”Heads up: Moses doesn't make it into the Promised Land. This is a big deal, and the Bible wants to make this clear. We don't just see this here, but it's said again in Numbers 27:12, in Deuteronomy 3:26, in Deuteronomy 32:51 — Moses does not make it! Whoever You AreMoses will die in the wilderness because, according to the text, he does not believe God. That is what the text tells us, and I don't think we need to speculate more details than what we're told.If we're reading carefully, we see that Moses does something different in verse 11 from what God says in verse 8 — he doesn't speak to the rock, he strikes the rock — and then God says in verse 12, “you did not believe in me.” Later on, referring to this event, in Numbers 27, God says Moses rebelled against his word; in Deuteronomy 32, God says Moses broke faith with him in the midst of the people. So the Bible makes this clear: Moses did not believe God, which was evidenced in that he did not do what God said, and that's why Moses didn't make it into the Promised Land.Which means, God wants your faith whoever you are. It doesn't even matter if you're Moses … or Miriam or Aaron. It doesn't matter who you are, God wants your faith.At the very least, this gives us some wonderful clarity, because it means that from the greatest men and women to ever live, to the simplest person you could ever imagine, God requires the same thing. He wants every type of person to trust him.So, get this: for everyone in this room, you don't have to wonder what God wants from you, because what he wants from you the same thing he wants from every human, whoever they are. God wants your faith. He wants you to trust him, which means you do what he says.So we're all in this together: whatever we got going on, wherever we're coming from, God wants our faith whoever we are. Chapter 20 makes that clear. Now let's look at Chapter 21.2. God wants your faith if you want to live. We're gonna focus here on verses 4–9. You heard it read earlier, but let me set up the scene for you. We have another situation yet again when the people became impatient and they spoke against God and against Moses. They did the whole: You brought us out of Egypt to die here! There's no food and no water!And Chapter 21, verse 6 shows us God's response. It's straightforward. This just happens. Ya'll look at Chapter 21, verse 6. You're gonna wanna see this. Chapter 21, verse 6:“Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.”Now this is just one verse and the story moves on right away, but wait a minute! Can you imagine this? “Fiery serpents” is another way to say poisonous snakes — these are the kind of snakes that if they bite you, you die. And this makes sense to us because these kind of snakes exists today. Snakes like the black mamba, king cobra, saw-scaled viper, diamondback rattlesnake — these are snakes that when they bite you, they inject hemotoxins into your body that destroy your red blood cells; your blood clots, it basically turns into concrete, and you die in agony. Can we give thanks to God that we don't have any of these snakes in MN? I know people complain about the cold, but it's a good thing we don't have poisonous snakes. It wasn't like that for me growing up in North Carolina.We were doing an ice-breaker question at a big staff meeting a few weeks ago, and the question was about your greatest fear. And if I'm honest, since I was a kid I've had this fear that a snake would be hiding under the rim of a toilet, waiting for me. Just imagine that. … When you least imagine it, bitten.That kind of thing is happening in Numbers 21. It's snakebites everywhere, and it's not that these snakes magically appeared, but they had most likely already been in the land. There are a few other places in the Torah where God mentions the wild animals in the land (see Exodus 23:29; Deuteronomy 7:22); and in Leviticus 26:22, God says that as a curse for disobedience, he will “let loose the wild beasts against you.” I think that's what's happening here. Up to now, God has been restraining these creatures from harming the people, but now, as judgment, God let's them loose, and it's mayhem. Look what the people do in verse 7: And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.And God answers the prayer. He is going to send salvation to the people, but notice the unusual way God does this in verse 8. … God tells Moses to make a bronze serpent, set it up on a pole, and whoever is bitten, if they look at the bronze serpent, they'll live. That's the only way to survive. I want you to see this in verse 9. Verse 9 says: “So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.”Now it's pretty straightforward what you're supposed to do if your snakebitten, but the question is: Why? Why did God do it like this?It seems unreasonable to us, maybe even a little bit absurd in this context, that God would bring healing from a curse by looking at a symbol of that curse.We don't know exactly why this way — we just know this is what God said and if you're snakebitten you better do what God says — which means you trust him — if you want to live!So yeah, it might not make a lot of sense to you. You might have all kinds of questions, but how many questions do you wanna ask while your blood is turning into concrete!?!?The fact is, when you realize that you've been snakebitten — when you get the severity of your situation — the only thing you wanna do is look! Where's the bronze serpent?! I gotta see it! I just have to see it!John Calvin comments on this passage that this whole thing showcases “the peculiar virtue of faith, that we should willingly be fools, in order that we may learn to be wise only from the mouth of God.” Calvin says, and I agree, that God is offending human reason on purpose, so that it's crystal clear that it's not ourselves who rescue us, but it's only by the grace of God. This whole scene, then, is an amazing picture of faith in Jesus — and you don't have to take Calvin's word for it, because Jesus himself told us this. In the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, one of the most famous passages in the Bible, Jesus says this amazing sentence. He says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”And I think the connection here is multi-layered. In a way, Jesus lifted up on the cross is like the bronze serpent on the pole — the symbol of judgment becomes the source of life. And this lifting up was not just the actual event of the crucifixion, but it's the telling of that event; it's the preaching of Jesus. Jesus lifted up is our witness to Jesus. But the main connection that Jesus is making is not between himself and the bronze serpent, but it's about what we do — it's that we must believe! The deeper connection in what Jesus says is between us and the people of Israel, and it's that we're all snakebitten. We're all sinners who are under a curse and we're condemned. We've been separated from God and we are going to die, and the only thing you can do — if you wanna live — is look! Look to Jesus!Don't look to yourself. Don't look to how good you are or to how many decent things you've done or to how smart you might be. Don't look to others — to who your family is or who your friends are or to what others think of you. Don't look anywhere else. Just look to Jesus. Trust in Jesus — if you want to live. That's what Numbers 21 is telling us.And this is something that I think we need to settle. Just get this clear in our hearts. Whenever we find ourselves in a place where we wonder: God, what do you want from me? If we're ever looking up to heaven saying that — Here I am! What do you want?Here's the answer that is true every time: God wants your faith. Whoever you are, if you want to live, trust in Jesus Christ.And if you think all this sounds simple, it's supposed to. This is God's word for us today. Some of you who have been walking with Jesus for a long time, hear this again: keep trusting him. Keep looking to him, for eternal life and all its details here.And for others of you who are snakebitten and condemned, what are you doing? You're looking to all these others things, but they will not give you life. This morning, I'm lifting Jesus high for you! Look to him! It could mean that you pray a straightforward prayer like this:Jesus, I can't save myself and I'm sorry for trying.I believe you died on the cross and are raised from dead for me.I trust you. Save me.That is a prayer of faith, and it's what God calls us to as his people, and that's how we come to this Table.The TableAt the Lord's Table, we as God's people remember the death of Jesus and give him thanks.

Our exit today has us trying to hold a seat for our date at an Everclear concert. This week, we are talking about Loser, written and directed by Amy Heckerling. Along the way, we talk about the wonderful cast of the film (especially Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear), Dora the Explorer, Simon Birch, New York movies, Andy Dick, confusing character ages, the legacy of American Pie, and the ever-growing Zak Orth is an Eccentric College Student Cinematic Universe. And both Tripp and Ross recommend some tonally opposite movies from this one. Thememusic by Jonworthymusic. Powered by RiversideFM. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CFF Films⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with Ross and friends. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Movies We've Covered on the Show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Letterboxd. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Movies Recommended on the Show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Letterboxd.

Our very special little pal Luke Null joins us today, but this time, with his his friend and fellow comedian, Tom Fell. This isn't a Luke Null episode without human on animal sex talk, so we'll be covering JRHNBR of course, as well as the Fappening era, Tom's KFC Commercial, and the good ole days when Luke and Tom were roommates.   PRESENTED BY CASHAPP. Download CashApp and take control of your finances! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cash-app/id711923939 SUPPORT BLANDINO'S PIZZA: https://fridaybeers.shop/collections/af-pod FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS: https://www.flowcode.com/page/almostfridaypod FOLLOW TOM FELL: https://www.instagram.com/tomfell/ FOLLOW LUKE NULL: https://www.instagram.com/luke_null/   SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: GO TO https://liquiddeath.com/ALMOSTFRIDAY TO CHECK OUT ALL THEIR HEALTHY, INFINITELY RECYCLABLE BEVERAGES AND FIND YOUR CLOSEST RETAILER Try Every Man Jack today https://www.everymanjack.com/discount/FRIDAY for 25% off your first order. GET PREMIUM WIRELESS PLANS STARTING AT $15 A MONTH AT https://www.mintmobile.com/almostfriday   Timestamps: (00:00) Ads (02:43) Intro (07:28) Luke and Tom's Mural (11:15) Mutton Chops/KFC Double Down (18:34) The Fappening (23:31) BAD Breaking Bad Actor (26:40) Simon Birch (34:29) The Ole Dog Days (38:38) Crunter of the Week (52:19) More Crimpers (57:04) Love Island (1:01:04) Big Justice (1:02:55) The Rizzler (1:06:34) New Aaron Hernandez Series (1:10:20) Characters

We are sitting down with Kendra, and she is doing her 104 End of the 90s JV Movies tournament. Check out this episode to see what she thinks is the best JV movie from the end of the 90s. If you want to do your tournament, please get in touch with us, and we will set it up. Blue streak (1999)Disgusting Behavior (1998)The Waterboy (1998)The sex monster (1999)bicentennial mann (1999)stuart little (1999)Mystery, Alaska (1999)the x files (1998)Six days seven nights (1998)Babe: Pig in the city (1998)The replacement killers (1998)The newton boys (1998)In too deep (1999)the governess (1998)big daddy (1999)Madeline (1998)Great expectations (1998)Sliding doors (1998)Palmetto (1998)rounders (1998)Entrapment (1999)Wild things (1998)Flawless (1999)Ride with the devil (1999)cant hardly wait (1998)Man on the moon (1999)Fallen (1998)A civil Action (1998)Shes all that (1999)Edtv (1999)the trench (1999)arlington road (1999)Baseketball (1998)Velvet goldmine (1998)Psycho (1998)SLC Punk (1998)Very Bad thing (1998)Rush hour (1998)The big hit (1998)twilight (1998)the deep end of the ocean (1999)The Wood (1999)but im a cheerleader (1999)Mystery men (1999)Asterix and obelix vs caesar (1999)american Pie (1999)Doctor Dolittle (1998)deep blue sea (1999)Celebirty (1998)the mummy (1999)the ninth gate (1999)The rugrats movies (1998)varsity blues (1999)City of Angels (1998)Armageddon (1998)Blade (1998)vampires (1998)blast from the past (1999)Snake eyes (1998)Human Traffic (1999)Quest for Camelot (1998)The legend of 1900 (1998)thursday (1998)The faculty (1998)Stepmom (1998)True crime (1999)The siege (1998)Payback (1999)Simon Birch (1998)Ster trek: insurrection (1998)Forces of Nature (1999)A perfect murder (1998)deep impact (1998)never been kissed (1999)runaway bride (1999)Mighty Joe Young (1998)for love of the game (1999)Halloween H20 (1998)Holy smoke (1999)cruel intentions (1999)Meet joe black (1998)Apt pupil (1998)Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)The object of my affection (1998)drop dead gorgeous (1999)austin powers the spy who shagged me (1999)Lake placid (1999)girl, interrupted (1999)Pushing tin (1999)Lethal weapon 4 (1998)Bride of chucky (1998)what dreams may come (1998)Small soldiers (1998)Angela's ashes (1999)summer of sam (1999)Anna and the king (1999)detroit rock city (1999)Any given sunday (1999)Fear and loathing in las vegas (1998)life (1999)how stella got her groove back (1998)Star wars episode 1 the phantom menace (1999)the world is not enough (1999)ravenous (1999) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mass-debaters/support

The season 5 Movie Challenge has officially begun and we're starting off HOT. First up is the highly anticipated Simon Birch directed by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Jim Carey, Joseph Mazzello, Ian Michael Smith, Ashley Judd, and Oliver Platt.

I'm so excited to have my dear friends (Eliotte Nicole, Mackenzie Martin, Taylor Hansen) of 10+ years in LA join me in this very special episode. Revisiting this in the editing process was everything I needed and more to put the biggest smile on my face and remind myself of the power of community. I highly respect each of these incredible humans and they share beautiful insight on the importance of community, how not to be a creeper when developing new relationships (aka networking), and the beauty of friendship in a harsh industry. @eliottenicole@_mackenzie_martin_@taylor.n.hansenEliotte Nicole is an eclectic performer originally from San Antonio, TX and a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. Trained in many forms of dance, Eliotte has performed the works of Kenny Ortega, Tyce Diorio, Charm La'Donna, Jerry Mitchell, Michael Rooney, Martha Graham, and more. She is a Background Vocalist for Taylor Swift and was a part of the award-winning and record-breaking: The RED World Tour, The 1989 World Tour, and The reputation Stadium Tour. Eliotte has performed on TV and award shows with Taylor Swift, Cher, Meghan Trainor, John Legend, Ne-yo, and Pitbull; and in commercials for Ford, Crocs, Nike Training Club, Old Navy to name a few.  Be sure to catch Eliotte on stage with Taylor Swift for the upcoming The Eras Tour!Mackenzie Martin is a Los Angeles based Choreographer and Entrepreneur, recognized internationally for her distinctive and artistically grounded choreography, her ability to create a sense of space, and visionary leadership. Her credits include Missy Elliot, Lululemon, Donovan Woods, Duomo, Sephora, Caesar's Palace, DanceOn, Polica and Simon Birch's "14th Factory" and is a two time Capezio A.C.E Awards nominee. Mackenzie is the Director of LA contemporary dance company GEOMETRY and the CEO & Founder of SOUL DE SOUL Dance Convention where she also teaches on faculty. She is also the founder of GENESIS STUDIOS in Los Angeles.Taylor Hansen is a Los Angeles based Choreographer, Dance Educator, Coach and Manager from Rochester Hills, MI. She danced her way through Hollywood for many years and has officially transitioned her career in dance education. Taylor has traveled the country judging, teaching master classes and setting guest choreography over the last 10 years. Her powerful choreography has won numerous awards in the competitive circuit, with her proudest role being the Head Coach of Saugus High School dance team in Santa Clarita, CA. You can also pop into her open technique class at Los Angeles' newest professional studio, Genesis Studios, where she also happens to be the Manager/Lead Designer. In Michigan Taylor danced with Radio Disney, Variety Charity, Detroit's MotorCity Movements and also appeared on FOX as a Vegas finalist for SYTYCD Season 7. Taylor completed her Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University.  Find her shouting 5,6,7,8 or on a hike in LA.Hey y'all! I'm Justine, the voice behind the DC:U pod and MNTR MGMT. After 15+ years in the industry as a choreographer, dancer, producer, educator and more, I'm now working closely with dance artists on professional development, business skills and digital enhancement. Curious? join the mntrU Crew or become a Pod Producer/SupporterConnect with me on Insta @mntr.mgmt

On this week's episode of Broad Topix best friends Kim Congdon & Alex Scarlato are in New York at GaS Digital Studio with comedians Sara Weinshenk and Brendan Sagalow. They discuss Sara nearly getting trafficked at the airport, how they well they could fight off being roofied, reliving the tragedy of Simon Birch, which gender it's easier to perform oral sex on and so much more!Original Air Date: 10.27.22Support Our Sponsorshttps://YoDelta.com use Promo Code GAS for 25% OFF your orderhttps://rockauto.com and let them know you heard about them on Broad Topix PodcastWatch & SUBSCRIBE on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh4i5lz_alszTrkl7xwPP1A?sub_confirmation=1Broad Topix is a LIVE every THURSDAY at 9:30 PM ET ONLY on GaS DigitalOr catch the YouTube Premiere later in the week: SUNDAY at 11PM EThttps://GaSDigitalNetwork.com/LIVESign up to Gas Digital Network with promo code TOPIX for a 7 Day FREE TRIAL to get access to the HD livestreams, the live chat, and the entire Gas Digital library, including every single BROAD TOPIX episode On-Demand in HD.https://GaSDigitalNetwork.com/high-octane-all-accessFOLLOW THE WHOLE SHOW!Broad TopixInstagram: https://instagram.com/broadtopixKim CongdonInstagram: https://instagram.com/kimcongdonTwitter: https://twitter.com/kimberlykongdonAlex ScarlatoInstagram: https://instagram.com/iamalexscarTwitter: https://twitter.com/iamalexscarSara WeinshenkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/princessshenkTwitter: https://twitter.com/princessshenkBrendan SagalowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brendansagalowTwitter: https://twitter.com/BrendanSagalowGaS Digital NetworkInstagram: https://instagram.com/gasdigitalTwitter: https://twitter.com/gasdigitalSEND US MAIL:GaS Digital Studios Attn: Broad Topix151 1st Ave # 311New York, NY 10003#Comedy #Podcast #GaSDigital #KimCongdon #AlexScarlatoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

the fellas finish their Big Titty Privilege conversation and share their emails for questions comments or concerns. What does the word FRIEND mean to you? Can your spouse or partner be your BEST FRIEND? Where is and has been your favorite place to have sex? How do you parent your kids through porn? SERIOUS TALK TIME! Is abortion worse than slavery? We start with our Black Panther 2 theories after the trailer is released and more tv shows and movie updates. Would an American Revolution be dope? And what's the most emotional movie death you still can't deal with? We finish out the week with our weekly rundown of Six Brown Chicks Advice questions...ENJOY!!!!

We chat with Simon Birch - Motorvation 36 Grand Champion. We discuss his history in the modified car scene and his amazing Suzuki Mighty Boy, the car that stole Motorvation 36. We also discuss NASCAR Daytona 500 and some testing times for the Gen 3 Supercar.

LIVE FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK! We talk about what demons are in this universe, if it's okay to call Roswaal Italian, curses woven together and how Maniac McGee and/or Dr. House could unravel it, Natsumi Schwarz real speculation, and Simon Birch spoilers (7:50-9:00 if you care). Subaru may or may not have found out about racism from Tiktok. This ep is chaotic! Cw: talk about the Dark Knight Rises shooting from about 26:08 to 26:45. Intro/Outro music: Dead! by My Chemical Romance Cover Art: Ognjen kaloliferart Title reference: Anne antigoneprogone Our twitter: fwdfwdrezero

Kevin's choice for this week's movie talk episode is the 1998 Dramedy film, Simon Birch. It's a sweet and heartfelt movie that also delivers some good laughs. Mike chose the Nicolas Cage, John Travolta film Face Off, released in 1997. You got lots of guns, explosions and people trading faces in this action/thriller from director John Woo. It's another long episode and we're going to try to shorten them in the future, but we hope you enjoy it anyway. Thanks for tuning in! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/distortedminds/support

The boys talk about the melodramatic 1998 movie, “Simon Birch.”

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we read a prayer for owen meany, so now it's time to watch the semi-adaptation, simon birch. we do the owen voice. (want more bonus episodes? go to patreon.com/lotterypod for new episodes in every "off" week.)

Join your host Ryan Perez and guest Simon Birch for Part 2 of their discussion about the 14th Factory talking about: the hurdles it took to get the space in Los Angeles and opening with little to no outside support; the building of and the deeper meanings behind each of the exhibits in the gallery; conquering the bureaucratic loopholes to be able to finally open the gallery to the public; the future of the 14th Factory and if there will be a new space!! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The hits just keep on cooming! The C U M J U N K I E S are back with some more dank nugs and a movie from their childhood. This time they're doing the classic film about that little beta cuck kid from Simon Birch (not Simon) that is having trouble meeting chicks and with school yard bullies until one day where he finds an empty futuristic, alien, anime mech suit in a junkyard that talks to him and asks him to crawl inside of his wet moist guts and wear him like a beef ravioli!! ———————— Please help spread the word and leave us ratings and reviews on itunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and YouTube! Also, follow the Official Revival House feed for all of our shows in one place. ———————— Music "M.A.Z.S.T.W.P.T.W" Performed by: Mac and Zach Album - "Yeah.. Fuck The Dumb Shit!" (2019) tinyurl.com/y6oq2ms5 "Save The World" Written & Performed by: David Capper Twitter - https://twitter.com/DOC604 Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP-pirl9HNNNj3U65T44_YQ Links SUPPORT US / REVIVAL HOUSE: ►https://patreon.com/revivalhousenetwork ►https://teespring.com/stores/revivalhouse ►https://streamlabs.com/behindthemaskpodcast LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: ►https://youtube.com/revivalhouse ►https://itunes.apple.com/md/podcast/mac-and-zach-save-the-world/id638161116 ►https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I7hjt4yfnvrtka6adrvymjpmj3a ►https://stitcher.com/podcast/savethewells/mac-and-zach-save-the-world ►https://open.spotify.com/show/2PekqTKlj7Hxv3tygCeaOS ►https://feeds.podcastmirror.com/mazstw/RH REVIVAL HOUSE NETWORK: ►https://youtube.com/revivalhouse ►https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/revival-house/id1316864493?mt=2 ►https://play.google.com/music/m/I76z5v443fw742cqv2kfl66qiru?t=Revival_House ►https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/revival-house-2 ►https://open.spotify.com/show/3Djss5ACcF4lkYH0lK5iKW?si=uSwnEoSjRAK5p8wYa-CjdQ ►https://feeds.podcastmirror.com/revival-house-network SOCIAL MEDIA: ►https://discord.gg/8YtT8jXrHp ►askmazstw@gmail.com ►https://mazstw.tumblr.com ►https://youtube.com/channel/UC__cDT6kJgZtkYXVq9PI8HQ ►https://facebook.com/mazstw ►https://twitter.com/mazstd ►https://instagram.com/mazstw ►https://reddit.com/r/RevivalHouse ►https://twitch.tv/revivalhousenetwork

The hits just keep on cooming! The C U M J U N K I E S are back with some more dank nugs and a movie from their childhood. This time they're doing the classic film about that little beta cuck kid from Simon Birch (not Simon) that is having trouble meeting chicks and with school yard bullies until one day where he finds an empty futuristic, alien, anime mech suit in a junkyard that talks to him and asks him to crawl inside of his wet moist guts and wear him like a beef ravioli!! ———————— Please help spread the word and leave us ratings and reviews on itunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and YouTube! Also, follow the Official Revival House feed for all of our shows in one place. ———————— Music "M.A.Z.S.T.W.P.T.W" Performed by: Mac and Zach Album - "Yeah.. Fuck The Dumb Shit!" (2019) tinyurl.com/y6oq2ms5 "Save The World" Written & Performed by: David Capper Twitter - https://twitter.com/DOC604 Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP-pirl9HNNNj3U65T44_YQ Links SUPPORT US / REVIVAL HOUSE: ►https://patreon.com/revivalhousenetwork ►https://teespring.com/stores/revivalhouse ►https://streamlabs.com/behindthemaskpodcast LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: ►https://youtube.com/revivalhouse ►https://itunes.apple.com/md/podcast/mac-and-zach-save-the-world/id638161116 ►https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I7hjt4yfnvrtka6adrvymjpmj3a ►https://stitcher.com/podcast/savethewells/mac-and-zach-save-the-world ►https://open.spotify.com/show/2PekqTKlj7Hxv3tygCeaOS ►https://feeds.podcastmirror.com/mazstw/RH REVIVAL HOUSE NETWORK: ►https://youtube.com/revivalhouse ►https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/revival-house/id1316864493?mt=2 ►https://play.google.com/music/m/I76z5v443fw742cqv2kfl66qiru?t=Revival_House ►https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/revival-house-2 ►https://open.spotify.com/show/3Djss5ACcF4lkYH0lK5iKW?si=uSwnEoSjRAK5p8wYa-CjdQ ►https://feeds.podcastmirror.com/revival-house-network SOCIAL MEDIA: ►https://discord.gg/8YtT8jXrHp ►askmazstw@gmail.com ►https://mazstw.tumblr.com ►https://youtube.com/channel/UC__cDT6kJgZtkYXVq9PI8HQ ►https://facebook.com/mazstw ►https://twitter.com/mazstd ►https://instagram.com/mazstw ►https://reddit.com/r/RevivalHouse ►https://twitch.tv/revivalhousenetwork

Join your host Ryan Perez and artist Simon Birch as they discuss his childhood in the U.K, moving to Hong Kong, becoming an artist, surviving cancer, and the beginnings of the projects that led to his exhibit The 14th Factory! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Cozi discusses chock-full-of-Americana family film Simon Birch (1998). Will Lucé want to see this emotionally compelling PG movie that just so happens to be narrated by Jim Carrey? Recommendations: Lucé – Pumpkin (2002) Cozi – If you're depressed and it's late at night, go to bed --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/youneedtoseethis/support

Today we cover Simon Birch, a 1998 coming-of-age comedy about a cocky young boy with dwarfism who kills his best friend's mom in a freak pee-wee baseball accident. We also touch on alt-rock christian music, constipation, generalized anxiety, rude pastors, Jamie's impression of his dad, and alternatives to the word "love". Find out more at http://cripplethreatpodcast.com

Sleep study! Nightmares! and Carl Jung analytical psychology! This week the boys, exam the power of dreams in "Come True". We discuss, the closing of the ArcLight (RIP). John remembers Simon Birch (it's hilarious)  and Rolando can't cry. And so much more!! Article referenced: https://thecinemaholic.com/come-true-ending-explained/ You can always email us: skeletonboyspod@gmail.com Twitter: @boysskeleton

Originally, Aaron Schneider wanted to work for ILM, or Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. While taking a special effects class, his peers told him everything was going to computers, so he shifted his focus to cinematography. Soon, he was working on music videos for Cypress Hill, then movies like Kiss the Girls and Simon Birch. In an effort to shift his career, his put his life savings into a short called Two Soldiers in 2003. The short won an Oscar in 2004 and made him a director. These days, Schneider is known for Get Low (Bill Murray, Robert Duvall) and Greyhound (Tom Hanks). Get Low is somewhat of a folk tale about a Tennessee hermit and Greyhound is the true story of a U.S. Navy Commander in World War II. In this interview, Schneider talks about discovering Two Soldiers as a short story, the romance of historical fiction, how to get slow burn movies made, and how they shot the amazing submarine battle for the new film Greyhound. If it’s your first time listening, make sure to subscribe and visit my new website for information on the YouTube channel, the blog, this podcast, and my new book ‘Ink by the Barrel’ which takes advice from these 200+ interviews at the link below… Join the email list here: www.brockswinson.com Follow us on Instagram for updates: @brockswinson If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It only takes about 60-seconds and it really helps convince some of the hard-to-get guests to sit down and have a chat (simply scroll to the bottom on your iTunes Podcast app and click “Write Review"). Enjoy the show!

It's our hometown series! Mr. Monopoly picked this film, and we visit Nova Scotia, Canada. Content Warning: we discuss outdated themes in the film that would not be acceptable by today's standards.

for Mr Monopoly's Hometown pick, he picked the worst movie we have ever covered on this podcast *According to Thor. Others disagree. Some Actually liked it. Listen to find out WHO! all many thanks to Mr Monopoly's mom who braved the cold winter of Ontario to get photos of the baseball field from this movie, photo we proceeded to ignore in favor of photos of a softcore porn actress who is completely unrelated to this movie.

Paul McDonald and Britt Mooney discuss the differences between religion and faith, and how we are all searching for our True Father, as displayed in the 1998 film Simon Birch, starring Ian Michael Smith, Ashley Judd, and Joseph Mazzello. Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock Audio quotes performed by Tim Willard, Britt Mooney, and Paul McDonald from Abolition of Man (CS Lewis), Epic (John Eldredge), and Song of Albion (Stephen Lawhead)

It is important to realize that your life matters to someone. Inspired by a movie called Simon Birch, this podcast from Doug reminds leaders that purpose can guide life decisions, shape goals, and offer a sense of direction and meaning. Purpose provides the motivation to get up every day and embrace the work.

- Mike Thibideau But it's been. A really meaningful way to to change a lot of things about myself that were the underlying cause of like kind of what I went back to before, like I didn't I I didn't know why people would like to be sober and the reality is, is because they don't hate themselves. If you don't if you don't hate who you are, then just existing in your own skin isn't a miserable state of existence and finally learning to come to peace with those things. Is what really navigating recovery has been all about.   INTRO   Today, we are talking about addiction:  its roots, the challenge of staying sober, and how workplaces can support their people as they struggle to manage their addictions.  My guest in Mike Thibideau, he is the Director of Indiana Workforce Recovery.    Indiana Workforce Recovery is a partnership of the Indiana Wellness Council and the Indiana Chamber and I will let Mike tell you a little bit more about it in his own words   - Mike Thibideau Indiana Workforce Recovery is a program of the Wellness Council, operated in partnership with the chamber and the administration of Governor Holcomb here in Indiana that really works to mitigate the impact of addiction on employer environments by equipping them to support recovery.   - Mike Thibideau And I think that that's an important distinction. There are not a lot of initiatives. Well, there are a lot more now than when I started. Not a lot of initiatives out there really focused on recovery in the workplace.   But Mike doesn’t just work in Recovery.  He is also a man in recovery himself.  He has been sober for five years.  Yet, you know that I want my guests to be more than just their story of hardship, so let me introduce you a little more fully to Mike.    Mike is the father of a little girl, Hazel, and he and his wife have another little one on the way.    - Mike Thibideau And we're we're just really excited to have her kind of join our team, as it were. It's all healthy. All good. I don't know. Unfortunately, I don't know too much about her yet. That's kind of, I think, a good thing at this point. But we're yeah, we're just really excited to have that addition to the family.   Mike has lived in Indy for the last eight years, he considers himself a Hoosier and roots for the Colts but he was born in metro Detroit.  He and his wife met through a mutual friend, post-college.    - Liesel Mertes But this story, you know, did you know, like right off the bat that you guys would be a good fit? Was it a chemistry from the start or did you have to both come to that realization, kind of like in your own time manner?   - Mike Thibideau We definitely had some chemistry kind of to kick things off. And we actually started hanging out the year that in the last time Indianapolis was hosting the Final Four and we were watching. Those those basketball games, and coincidentally enough, that first month together was the time that Michigan State and Duke faced off in that Final Four game.   - Liesel Mertes Wow, you're going to have to confront that one early.   - Mike Thibideau But but we definitely knew there was some. Some chemistry early on, and I think that that actually fully manifested itself when she became aware of of the struggles I was having in life and still kind of stuck it out because she hasn't only been around for the. The good parts of the last few years, she she saw. When we got together, slowly but surely, she got to the veil, became lifted and she got to see some of me at my worst.   - Mike Thibideau So I think that that chemistry kind of spoke to. Her ability to be resilient in those times and. Support an individual who clearly was in need of some help.   - Liesel Mertes Yeah, you know, that's a that's a very appropriate segue into, you know, some of what we want to discuss in today's podcast. You talk about yourself.   - Liesel Mertes You know, when you sent me your bio as a person in long term recovery, you unpack that a little bit for me. What does that mean to you? And then I'd love to go deeper into some of your story.   - Mike Thibideau Yeah, sure.   - Mike Thibideau So, yeah, I, I, I now publicly before privately identify myself as a person in long term recovery from substance use disorder. And that means that I have not used a drink or mind altering drug aside from those prescribed by a doctor as prescribed in what for me is now over five years. And so I also I think within that is the dedication to living my life in a certain way that betters the world around me and consistently endeavours to be better.   - Mike Thibideau I wouldn't say I am better, but I you know, we all we all fail. But I think the difference is as a person in recovery for me, I can identify those moments of failure or recognize them as such. Name them and use them to grow and try to be better.   - Liesel Mertes Yeah, I feel like in the public eye and consciousness, there's almost like these two polarities in which we see substance abuse and addiction. It's either like we see representations of the addict, you know, someone who is just their whole life has been wrecked by, you know, their relationship with this substance or, you know, someone who's doing well in recovery. And it's a triumphant story.   - Liesel Mertes And I'm struck that, you know, for for many people, it's much more of a spectrum of their relationship with, you know, whatever substance that is beginning to take up more and more space in their life and in their consciousness. I imagine that there are elements of that within your own story.   - Liesel Mertes You know, you don't just start drinking like, you know, tons of hard liquor as a 15 year old, as you chart, you know, kind of your progression.   - Liesel Mertes What is your origin story of your relationship with substances that would later become really damaging in your life?   - Mike Thibideau Yeah, I mean, absolutely. So for me, it all goes back to really grade school, even where I experienced a lot of trauma related to bullying and insecurity. I I was a very I was a very small kid until about eighth grade when suddenly I grew like a foot or more in a short very short period.   - Mike Thibideau But I remember distinctly, you know, being in sixth grade and getting picked on by fourth grade girls who were also bigger than me, you know, kids calling me Simon Birch and which in hindsight as adults, should have been a compliment because that dude ended up being a hero in that movie.   - Mike Thibideau But but as a as a kid, you know, hurt and a lot of just kind of traumatic bullying experiences as a younger individual. The that kind of led to me having a self narrative of I'm not cool, I'm not good enough.   - Mike Thibideau And I think that was also reinforced to an extent academically as well by my ADHD and the presence of that in my life. I never got bad grades, but I had to do a decent amount of work to get decent grades and really, what I found was when I started doing drugs and using using drugs and alcohol, it felt like a hole had been filled and suddenly I felt accepted by others like I wasn't some square kid who followed all the rules and did everything right.   - Mike Thibideau I was able to be a little bit more than that. And it's really funny because, you know, in hindsight and as an adult, I'm the kind of guy who, like, loves clear expectations and rules. And I think that that same thing was true for me as an adolescent.   - Mike Thibideau But it wasn't cool to be a kid who followed all the rules and did and did those things right that that you think is expected of you. And so there was kind of that like that always that pull on me as somebody who, like I think really in the end wanted to follow the rules and be a good kid, but also saw felt that that identity was one of social isolation and outcast.   - Mike Thibideau And so really, I mean, at in high school, my identity was a lot of things. But one of that and among at least certain social circles was a kid who, you know, smoked a lot of pot and and would drink. And I don't know how much others perceived that as being my identity, but it definitely, for me, was a key part of my identity. And I think that that's. What a lot of people who struggle with addiction have in their lives is the.   - Mike Thibideau The inability to accurately assess how others view us and have a really false internal narrative of our own identity. And at a point that became what it meant to feel normal.   - Mike Thibideau I remember as early as college saying to friends, why are people sober? Like, why would you ever just choose to be sober? Like, who likes that? And that's not a normal thing, apparently, for people to think about life. So it took.   - Mike Thibideau College was a very tumultuous time where I would kind of my horse, my old tale of the least adult addiction is one of being able to successfully navigate crises. And in doing so, enable my own continued use,   - Liesel Mertes Tell me tell me a little bit more about that like crises that are brought about by, like forgetting important tests or dropping the ball or what did that look like for you?   - Mike Thibideau Well, for me, like a whole semester at a time in college back then, I would I'd get like a one point six and then I'd have to buckle down. In the next semester, I'd get a 4.0. I even had at one point, I think my junior year, I had a 4.0 and a three point nine five, and then the following year I followed that up with like a two point one and a and like a two point three.   - Mike Thibideau And none of it related to, like, how hard my classes were or anything like that. I just couldn't. My disease psychologist would kind of become more active and less active based on systems and supports that I would put in my life, which at least at that time were able to temporarily help me navigate things.   - Liesel Mertes Could you unpack that for me? Because I'm struck that that's an evocative term that listeners might not understand. Tell me a little bit about your particular disease cycle and how it was affected by the presence or absence of the supports that you're talking about.   - Mike Thibideau So for me, a lot of what it looked like was just habits and ritual that I used specifically with the conscious thought of managing my drinking. And by managing my drinking, I mean, not drinking less, but managing the impact that drinking was having on my life.   - Mike Thibideau when I would be at school and I would be drinking really hard, but it's still doing well at school, what I would basically do is I would get a paper assigned to me and like I would write it that day. Knowing that if I do this work now, I can party harder later.   - Mike Thibideau I would do all my studying for tests well in advance and I would do everything I could to kind of build in a. Immediate sense of accomplishment that I would then follow up with. You know, reckless behavior, frankly, and what would really happen is that that would only be sustainable for a certain amount of time before the the rails would come off and I'd spend a whole semester.   - Mike Thibideau Hardly doing anything or at least doing the bare minimum. And once you get in kind of both of those cycles, I think that that's a thing that is often the case with both individuals. I know and it was especially the case for myself, is that at a certain point you become like the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where you're just like you're just going down a path and it's going to end somewhere. And that's going to be really the time when you can make a choice and arrest the behavior, at least temporarily and survive or not.   - Mike Thibideau For some people, that ends in death. And fortunately, it didn't. And there were just kind of a lot of those periods in my life where I was just rolling down that hill and.   - Mike Thibideau There would have to be something there that would stop me, and it really was never a person or, you know, it wasn't a place where somebody could just say, like, you know, we love you, right? And then be like, oh, OK, cool.   - Mike Thibideau Like, I'll just stop drinking. It would have to be running out of money, becoming homeless. Changing jobs, moving to a new city.   - Liesel Mertes So during this time, you know, you talk about it wasn't enough just for someone to have, like, the verbal affirmation, we love you, we want you to stop.   - Liesel Mertes I'm struck. Did you have people in your life that were seeing this decline and were trying to intervene? And a follow up to that, if it.   - Liesel Mertes Yes. Is were they doing like what were some good things they were doing? Did it even matter? What were some things that were terrible? I'd love to hear more about what people were trying to do to come alongside you.   - Mike Thibideau So as a disclaimer, my use during that time and really through most of my really hard addiction for about 18 through twenty five, I can't really remember very much. I was drinking somewhere between a fifth and a half gallon of hard liquor a day for most of that, and that along with doing drugs. And so to an extent that just really damages your ability to remember things. So I really can't tell you on my own perspective a story of somebody.   - Mike Thibideau Yeah. Trying to do something. I do know I heard years later that some of my fraternity brothers at some point did come out to me and say, like, hey, like, don't you think you're you're kind of drinking a little hard and. I thought that was one that was during, unfortunately, kind of for them, I think a little bit for me that was during one of the good times. And I just pulled up my transcripts and showed them all that I had a 4.0.   - Mike Thibideau And they were like, all right. You know, like it's look, it's Goutman. You know, like if you're if what you're doing isn't causing problems, then it's probably not a problem, you know, like live your life. And I think there were.   - Mike Thibideau My family, actually, I will say I was the one who kind of initiated that conversation as an adult during high school and things like that, they would have we would have conversations and consequences about my use.   - Mike Thibideau But as an adult, I remember about two years or three years before I got sober, even I told my I told my parents that I was an alcoholic and that I was going to eventually need to just stop drinking. And fortunately for me, that's what led to them eventually having an intervention for me years later, but. There were a lot of people like both them, I think, to an extent, and then also, you know, my then girlfriend, now wife, where I would tell them things like that and they'd be like, no, you're not like me.   - Mike Thibideau You know, that's and they wouldn't say that as much as they would vocalize to me later on in life that they were thinking it. And a lot of that was because I still had a job until the end, had a car and, you know, while I wasn't, I would say navigating life, well, I wasn't the stereotype of. What an addict or an alcoholic is, and so. And we just didn't know we as a family didn't have very much of it in our genetics and weren't exposed to it in that way.   - Mike Thibideau So it's a long way of saying that.   - Mike Thibideau I really don't have a whole lot of examples in my life of people who said, like, let's try to get you help or because. Because in general. I was able to hold it together enough that. The signs weren't there unless I let them be seen or unless you caught me in a specific moment.   - Mike Thibideau I also, you know, I moved I moved here eight years ago, so and I and before I lived in Indianapolis, I spent over two years living in, I think it was seven different cities around the country.   - Mike Thibideau So I wasn't really around family in a way that they saw much of my life.   - Liesel Mertes Yeah. I'd like to just ask a question about something that you mentioned. You talked about. I don't fit the stereotype of how we picture an addict, especially in the work that you do. You know, you. You go deep into probably as you build awareness, as you help recovering addicts, tell me what that stereotype looks like and how it can be damaging and how it steers us wrong. Yeah, in realizing the scope of how many people actually struggle with addiction issues.   - Mike Thibideau So I think definitely one part of it is I'm a straight white man that definitely doesn't hurt me as far as perception, obviously bias is real, but I also, you know, dressed fairly well and am a fairly eloquent individual and have been for really as long as I can really remember, that's only increased.   - Mike Thibideau So I was always a person who was able to clearly and clearly and concisely put together my thoughts and express myself in a very effective manner and even professionally, I.   - Mike Thibideau I think the best way to say it was I was always somebody who excelled until I was almost failing, meaning that I would be able to get a job or do something new in life and be very successful at it. Until my addiction would catch up with me, the routines would fall apart, the wheels would come off the wagon, and suddenly I was barely meeting expectations.   - Mike Thibideau And that's something I tell employers to look for all the time, is really that change in behavior, because I know that my boss, who I was working on, the the organization I was working for when I got into recovery and when I went through treatment, he told me he thought that I just didn't care anymore. He didn't. He knew something was going on.   - Mike Thibideau But he thought really it was just that I didn't give a crap and. That couldn't get any further from the truth, I love that job, but but at the same time, I was I was in crisis and my life was kind of starting to fall apart around me.   MUSICAL TRANSITION - Mike Thibideau When I actually realized that I had a problem, I was in a training for something called the Alcohol Skills Training Program back when I worked for my fraternity. And it's a workshop to teach young people how to responsibly navigate. Drinking and social behaviors. And they went through a little mini assessment of like how to talk to somebody about potentially having a problem with drugs or alcohol. And they were like, oh, yeah, if you like, checked like five of these 30 boxes, you might have a problem.   - Mike Thibideau And I checked like twenty nine of the 30. And it was just like, oh, OK. So this, this might be real. I kind of put it off for a little while after that.   - Mike Thibideau But but then really what I think started to make it strike home was when my memory loss started to interfere with my ability to remember things that I was doing sober. So I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to remember whether like so I wouldn't at that time I wasn't you know, I wasn't using or intoxicated at work or anything like that.   - Mike Thibideau But I was having trouble remembering things that I'd done the last day, even if I had been sober while doing them. And that was really having ramifications on my life where, like, I wouldn't be able to remember people that I met. I wouldn't be able to remember tasks that I had accomplished cause that I'd had or things that I checked in with my boss on. And so. Kind of that led to me realizing that, like something is happening here.   - Mike Thibideau That I have to be concerned about before I go insane. And that was very striking at the time.   - Liesel Mertes Yeah, and where where did you go from that realization?   - Mike Thibideau Well, I went right back to drinking, but that was that was a problem for Mike to deal with when the the ball finally hit the end.   Mike was drinking more and more.  He began in the morning and was even getting behind the wheel.  So his family staged an intervention.    - Liesel Mertes When when you say that, you know, they had an intervention, they directed me to services, you know, that's it's not like a quick flyover, but I imagine that there's like a pretty emotional scene, potentially, like, do you remember feeling angry? Were you ready to go when they told you you needed to go? Like, unpack that a little bit for me?   - Mike Thibideau I would say scared and excited was how I felt. I didn't realize how ready for it I was until the moment it was put in front of me. The moment they and I will say I'm like, I'm so I've I have done a number of these and been part of. Helping people get into treatment, and it does not often go as smooth as my we all kind of I guess luck got lucky, I don't know what it was. We were blessed by the fact that at that moment I was I was ready for it and able to engage.   - Mike Thibideau And it wasn't a hesitation or anything. It was just, yes, let's go.   - Mike Thibideau And we went. And it was it was a jarring experience. You know, going through detox and and then I did for forty five days of residential treatment and a couple of months of outpatient, and I've really especially that early period in detox and early residential was a very emotional time in my life. And one that. Was among the more difficult things I've been through.   - Mike Thibideau So. When people are struggling with addiction and in my own experience, when I was struggling with addiction, like I was pretty severe, you know, use. I was not a mentally like, well, person, so. Especially when you took away my crutch. It was a very emotional time, and part of that is the emotion centers in my brain that have been numbed for years were just starting to kind of open back up.   - Mike Thibideau And my brain was even early on starting the process of healing. There was a lot of crying and a lot of. Just trying to figure out what to do, and I remember even early on, one of my biggest barriers was, you know, people would be telling me about 12 step recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous or other such programs. And everybody was talking about God all the time. And I was a hardcore atheist at that point, you know.   - Mike Thibideau And that was a big barrier for me, was that people kept talking in that way. Fortunately, I got through my counselors and professional help is exposed to some parts of of that 12 step program, but then also just other cognitive behavioral therapy and supports that didn't rely on that narrative quite so much and really talked about how to build that into your own narrative and allowed me to successfully navigate that system.   - Mike Thibideau But I think one of the things that's really hard to do is, you know, when we when we put people into detox, you know, I I had pretty severe alcohol use disorder and I had done and I was doing some drugs here and there, but I had never even met anyone who had done meth or heroin prior to engaging in treatment.   - Mike Thibideau And suddenly I'm surrounded by individuals who have been using meth and heroin. And, you know, we can while ah, what's going on in our brains is very similar culturally, that's a very different type of individual than I had previously been engaged with. And so I kind of had to learn to. Have this new peer group, almost of people who have had very different life experiences than I did for the most part, and it was definitely like a culture shock going in there and seeing that and being around that for the first time.   - Mike Thibideau But I luckily I got really plugged in to some really great supports and. Found some good examples in my life of people who were doing the right things and followed that example for myself. That's 12 step recovery.   - Mike Thibideau But it's been. A really meaningful way to to change a lot of things about myself that were the underlying cause of like kind of what I went back to before, like I didn't I I didn't know why people would like to be sober and the reality is, is because they don't hate themselves. If you don't if you don't hate who you are, then just existing in your own skin isn't a miserable state of existence and finally learning to come to peace with those things. Is what really navigating recovery has been all about.   - Liesel Mertes Hmm, what did you and what do you continue to discover that you really like about the shober version of yourself?   - Mike Thibideau So. I like remembering things that's that's pretty cool, being able to know what you did yesterday. It might sound like a strange thing to take for granted, but to not take for granted.   - Mike Thibideau But I really don't. I would also say my ability to be present for those around me is a constant blessing and the relationships I have in my life are so deep and have so much meaning, and the vulnerability I'm able to possess on a constant basis is a is a huge, huge blessing.   - Mike Thibideau I know professionally, even one of the things that's been so great about being a person in long term recovery and really learning to navigate this life, I will say I fall short of this ideal all the time myself. But when you really work.   - Mike Thibideau When you really work on yourself and you learn to embrace serenity in your life, meaning knowing what you can control and what you can't, a lot of the most common workplace struggles kind of go out the door.   - Mike Thibideau If you live your life professionally, not obsessing about other people's actions, behaviors and thoughts, it frees up a lot of space to really do some pretty amazing things yourself.   - Mike Thibideau And it's something I didn't realize until I had been in recovery for a number of years and really. Practicing those principles is how much of people's workplace stress comes from what they can't control about others behaviors. And so that's been a beautiful thing for me, is just being able to be a little bit more in the moment, but then also just present to.   - Mike Thibideau Plan and and do the good work, I fall short of that all the time and still have problems, but I'm at least able to name them and process through it and and move on rather than obsess.   - Liesel Mertes What kinds of supports did you find that you needed in that immediate year or even in an ongoing way, like just the. For someone who has not gone through the process of moving towards sobriety?   - Liesel Mertes Give me give me more of like a perspective and what that journey has looked like for you post interventional treatment.   - Mike Thibideau So. I think that a lot of it for me has come down to really just leaning on my networks and my supports, so when I when I started off, I, I kind of just you have to accept I do accept that there was no such thing in early recovery as balance.   - Mike Thibideau You're not going to, like, spend an equal amount of time with your family and your work and your recovery and all these things. Kind of like recovery has to come first because it's the if without it, none of this other stuff is going to continue to exist.   - Mike Thibideau And I, I know my my workplace was really great about making sure that I was participating in treatment at the recommended amount by my medical professionals and really encouraging me to do that. They paid for me my salary through part of my medical leave to help with the bills. They helped me with reduced hours and slowing down my travel when I was engaged in outpatient programming and kind of took that stress away from me in the interim.   - Mike Thibideau But I leaned I leaned hard on my supports, I went to 12 step meetings pretty much every day for. Six, eight months, something like that, and and that meant I wasn't home to be with my girlfriend and invest time in that relationship quite as much.   - Mike Thibideau There were times at work where I would be really struggling and I would just kind of over lunch, go to a meeting and and take some time for myself. And I really worked hard to just stay engaged in systems and do the work.   - Mike Thibideau A big thing for me was recognizing. I'll be frank, I've been very blessed in that I haven't had very many times in recovery where I have had serious thoughts of drinking, I was ready for this change and I was doing the work. There have been limited times where that was not where that was present in my life. But I've been able to kind of.   - Mike Thibideau Get that in check real quick and a big reason for that is I've worked really hard on myself to recognize the symptoms of behavioral change that are getting me back to an emotional state where I would think about drinking.   - Mike Thibideau So me in my current state, as I'm sitting here today, is not going to have a thought today about alcohol, at least not in an unhealthy manner. I might literally think about alcohol as a concept or something like that because of my job, but the thought of drinking is not something that I'm worried about is a danger today.   - Mike Thibideau But my manipulation, my control issues, my insecurities, all of these things that are part of the me that would have that thought might come back into my life today in some form or fashion. And so my ability to recognize those in that moment and arrest that thought as unhealthy and process it is what leads me to be in a place where I don't have those thoughts and behaviors on a regular basis.   - Mike Thibideau The most helpful thing for me also, I will say, if anybody wants to figure out how to if you're working a 12 step program and you want to figure out how to translate that to work, I recommend to everybody that you read the Carnegie book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.   - Mike Thibideau I remember being in addiction and reading it and thinking this book isn't teaching me how to control anybody and make them my friend and not liking it, but in recovery, man, there are some principles in that book that have been jewels for me in navigating the workplace, most notably the futility of criticism, something I have to remind myself of all the time.   - Mike Thibideau But that that principle is a. Is a wonderful thing for learning how to think a little bit less about what you deserve and a little bit more about what to be grateful for.   - Liesel Mertes Hmm. Thank you for that recommendation. I found myself mentally cataloging and being like, I know I have a copy of that somewhere. Where is it? So that's a good resource.   - Liesel Mertes You have this depth of personal experience, which I'm sure you know, feeds daily into what you get to do professionally, which is thinking a lot about how you structurally equip workplaces to look at, you know, addiction issues that their people are going through.   - Liesel Mertes Individual stories are powerful, also, like high level data has its own impact, what is some of the scope of the challenge that is facing just at the statewide level, like if someone's thinking like her addiction and recovery in the workplace, I don't know, is that a problem here in Indiana?   - Liesel Mertes What are some data points that help illuminate that?   - Mike Thibideau The most important data set behind what we do. Is that employers being equipped to help individuals in the workplace can directly save lives, people who are referred to care via their employer have the highest levels of outcomes at one year and five year recovery measures.   - Mike Thibideau They have the strongest length of engagement with the treatment system, which is across multiple papers and studies shown as the primary indicator of success. And they have the most pressure to enter treatment, despite being the group that has the lowest self perceived need for care.   - Mike Thibideau And so what that means, as many people who are referred to treatment or to some type of education by their employer would not have gone if referred by friends, family or a doctor. And yet, despite that, they have the highest levels of outcomes.   - Mike Thibideau And a big part of that is what we know of as recovery capital. Social, which is social capital, is a very common concept. But when people get care while employed, they're more likely to have adequate insurance. They're more likely to have housing, transportation, healthier social networks and community supports that an unemployed individual just generally does not because employment is a key social determinants of health. So we know that by us equipping employers to intervene and assist, we can help individuals get help earlier in their disease cycle and in doing so, directly save lives and that.   - Liesel Mertes And what does well-equipped place of employment, what does that look like? How are individuals equipped like that, the management or high level? What what does what you're looking to build look like?   - Mike Thibideau So the most basic foundation is a sound second chance system, and that means that when an individual fails their first drug screen, they're not terminated. And that's at its most basic at its most basic level. That being with that being the defining characteristic, we've actually helped lower that number of employers in Indiana by twenty five percent in two years, which is remarkable that we've seen so swift behavioral change that a lowering of twenty five percent of the number of employers that terminate after a first failed drug test, correct?   - Mike Thibideau Yep. And then kind of on top of that very basic foundation, what we look for is the ability to support, refer individuals to appropriate treatment or care and have a basic system that allows you to retain them or at least the framework for attention. Relapse management is a key component of that. And what that really looks like from a best practice policy is that you're set up to where any time that an employee asks you for help, they are directly referred to care.   - Mike Thibideau Whether that's that could be their second time asking for help, their third time asking about their fourth time asking for help.   - Mike Thibideau You send them to help. But if they fail a second drug test, they're gone. And there's and there's no ifs, ands or buts kind of around that. Or if they if they have a workplace incident that you take appropriate disciplinary action based on that incident or behavior.   - Mike Thibideau But really leave the door open for and actively encourage individuals to still come forward and ask for help. So it's kind of one of those one of those mechanisms where the first time that you need help, whether it's through a request or a drug test or an incident, whatever it may be, certain certain types of things notwithstanding, if you're in your view, the employees still need to be held accountable for their behaviors and your environment.   - Mike Thibideau If somebody is violent in the workplace, it doesn't really matter whether they're intoxicated or not. They have to be held accountable for their violent behavior. But if they are an employee in good standing and they and they fail a drug screen or have an accident or something like that, you help them get well and get directed towards recovery. And then as things go on, you help mitigate the severity of relapse by encouraging by building systems that encourage them to come forward and ask for help any time that they need assistance.   - Liesel Mertes Right. I love what you do and what you're building, it's it's obviously there's a lot of alignment with empathy in the workplace and coming alongside people.   MUSICAL TRANSITION   We will return to my conversation with Mike in just a moment.  First, I want to thank our sponsor, Handle with Care Consulting.  With all of the stress and chaos of the year, promoting mental health and building cultures of care has never been more important.  Let Handle with Care help.  With keynotes, certificiate sessions, and executive coaching, we have offerings to fit your needs.    MUSICAL TRANSITION   - Mike Thibideau I mean, so before I did this role, I was the executive director of a construction association doing workforce development work on behalf of the state's construction industry. I had no professional background in addiction at all. I was I was doing workforce development work, largely an employer education. So. Even in that work, I would constantly see employers who would have 50 percent retention in three months, and those are the exact same kinds of employers that have engaged with us to try to increase those metrics and increase the amount of support that they're providing to get more people involved, because it costs employers a lot of money to train new talent.   - Mike Thibideau And for them to lose that talent so swiftly is is expensive. And so let alone the impact that it has on culture and people. But so far, so good, I guess. Right.   - Liesel Mertes Well, I'm glad to hear it. And I think that it's true what you said, that the people who are coming are people who realize.   - Liesel Mertes At least the beginning scope of the problem and are wanting to make those changes, we we talk on, you know, each episode of the Handle with Care podcast about like some really practical these are some these are some important things to do if you know someone who is going through something like this. And here are some things not to do as you think about.   - Liesel Mertes Let's start with the, you know, avoid these behaviors sort of thing,   - Liesel Mertes whether it's within your own story or just as you've worked with people who are in recovery, what are some of the least helpful things that whether it's a workplace community or a family or social context can do that, you know, inhibit someone's journey towards becoming healthier?   - Mike Thibideau So I think. My parameters that I try to set with people is. To both have the attitude of never give up while also setting clear boundaries, No. Individuals who are struggling with this are not mentally well, they're not easy to be around, they're not going to be largely cooperative with what you want them to do or make the immediate changes on first act that you think they should. And that's because they are sick. This is a disease, these are sick people, but they also, in many cases don't have a lot of trust in their lives and they're very suspicious and they believe that everybody's out to get them and that nothing is going to go well.   - Mike Thibideau So when you think about how to provide support. The best way is to just be there and be ready to help them do the right thing at any time.   - Mike Thibideau There's a lot of nuance involved in that and the the conversation of whether you're enabling or assisting or is a very complicated one that we could probably spend a whole podcast on. But I think that never losing the compassion is an important part of staying engaged and involved. And aside from that. It's also important to make sure that, you know. Especially as a workplace, at what point and having having it be clearly defined and not amorphous, when is enough enough?   - Liesel Mertes Yeah, there's clear boundaries that are there. You touched on this, but just to give you a chance to say it more fully.   - Liesel Mertes What are some of the the best things that people, whether as your wife or that you first employer or just best practices of people you work with, what comes to mind when you think these are some of the best things you can do to support someone who is dealing with severe steps?   - Liesel Mertes Well, not even severe with substance abuse issues, so.   - Mike Thibideau My wife, to her great credit, gives me the ability to self identify a need for self care in my life and to take care of those needs, whether it's you going out and playing golf with buddies in recovery, taking time to go to a 12 step meeting, working with as a working as a volunteer to stay engaged in the community. And that meeting that she has to stay home with our daughter or whatever it may be. She's very good about recognizing that.   - Mike Thibideau That's an important part of me being able to take care of myself so I can then be present for others. And I think that within the workplace, that can look very different.   - Mike Thibideau So this current job is the only one I've ever had outside of the one where I got treatment at where I've ever been public about the fact that I like. And in recovery and struggled with addiction in my past roles, I would just tell people things like I don't drink, it cause problems for me in the past and that would be enough.   - Mike Thibideau Nobody ever cared. Nobody ever really questioned it. I would be at networking events that had alcohol, most of which I put together.   - Mike Thibideau And I never really had a problem with that because God knows those things were terrible for me when I was actually drinking.   - Liesel Mertes There are a lot easier when you're not to be drunk and remember the person that you made that great contact with.   - Mike Thibideau Oh, my gosh. Talk about gratitude. That was like one of the weirdest things I know. And it's I should not be too flippant about this. I know a lot of people really struggle with being around alcohol in those professional settings. But I know for me that was a source of gratitude because, boy, I, I was miserable at those when I was actually drinking because I never could drink how I wanted to.   - Mike Thibideau And all I could think about was how soon I could leave to get to go somewhere and really Taiwan or do it. How I really wanted to. But yeah, now those are huge moments of gratitude, but so the other thing is, just so I like to think of.   - Mike Thibideau All of my employers have always been very good about giving me the ability to be vulnerable, about the need for self care, and that's, I will say, even outside of the environment of like reasonable accommodation and disclosure of an actual, like, disability, like, I've never I don't think needed to say, like, you know, I'm starting my recovery.   - Mike Thibideau I need to go do X, Y or Z. I've just said things like, you know, like, hey, I'm having a really tough day and I need to go take some time for myself over like a longer lunch. And people are like, yeah, go. Do you I think that that's how people should treat everybody. If you're if you allow your employees to be vulnerable, you allow them to take care of themselves and stay at their best.   - Mike Thibideau And while the old school mentality may be that people would quote unquote, take advantage of that, for the most part, people have so much gratitude for it that they end up working harder and doing better work.   - Mike Thibideau And I think on the whole, that that's like a really key thing to do is just to believe in people, be vulnerable about your struggles and put in an appropriate manner.   - Mike Thibideau I I am very vocal about the fact that I do not believe that everybody needs to be open about their recovery and their addiction story within their workplace. For me here, it makes sense and it's something that is very powerful for me to insert into my professional role because my professional role deals with addiction.   - Mike Thibideau But. Your employer does not need to know that in the same way that your employer doesn't need to know if you have diabetes, if you have depression, if you have sleep issues, if you have any other chronic disease that you're successfully managing,   - Mike Thibideau it's when you're not successfully managing it and you require accommodation that people should feel safe coming forward and requesting it to help take care of themselves prior to needing an intervention or a relapse or being failing a drug test or any of those things.   - Liesel Mertes I'd like that turn of phrase. Going to ponder that, yeah, just even framing what it means to have the space, but also to have, you know. Protections in place for a successful management of that, I appreciate that. Is there anything else that you feel like would be important for people to know that I didn't ask you or that you didn't get a chance to say?   - Mike Thibideau I think that one place where I I don't think get into as fully as I would love is especially as it relates to empathy, is just the the effect that this has on our own family members of those who are struggling and how different it's handled within especially the workplace from like adult caregiving and other types of health based issues that our employees encounter with those that they love.   - Mike Thibideau I mean, I remember very distinctly, and I tell this story a lot about my my my mom's mother and her struggle with cancer and aging as she got further on in years. And I know that my mom talked about that stuff at work. I see people in my own workplace talking about their what they have to do to take care of their parents as they age and being very vocal and vulnerable with others about that struggle. And I can guarantee that none of that same kind of support existed for my mom when I was dealing with my addiction or that people feel comfortable coming forward about when their loved ones are struggling.   - Mike Thibideau And this is an area where I think leadership has an ability to lead through vulnerability. And if you are a person who is in a company and you know somebody yourself who's struggling with addiction and it's affecting your life, I encourage you to be very vocal about that with your employees and then through that, discuss the support mechanisms that the workplace has to offer and just let them know that you're available for them to talk to if they ever just need a shoulder.   - Mike Thibideau Because. I mean, I know people who drop their son or son or daughter off in treatment and then went back to work like that day or the next hour and. That would be so hard and I would also venture to say would be something that if they actually talk to their boss about their boss would be like, no, like take care of yourself. You know, take the take the rest of the day off at least,   - Liesel Mertes and I imagine, you know, you've you've thought more on this, but I can imagine that is because there's there's a lot of levels of perhaps shame and protection built in that if people knew that I had a loved one who is going through this, like, how would they view me?   - Liesel Mertes And also, you know, a sense. You know, with whatever judgment of whether it's right or wrong, of wanting to protect that individual, like I don't want to expose my adult son to people knowing that he's struggling with this, what would they think is, is that. I don't know if accurate is the right term, do you find that those levels of kind of perception and protective impulses are like baked into why people feel uncomfortable talking about these things?   - Mike Thibideau Yeah, I think that that's that's a huge part of it, is that sense of stigma and shame and wanting to protect their loved ones. I know the probably a big part of it is they they they're worried to an extent about how it reflect on them. I know my own mom and early on especially would constantly say things like what could we have done differently? What could I have done differently? And the answer was like, nothing like your you were great.   - Mike Thibideau Like you killed it, you know, and that was totally outside of their control. But I don't know that it would have been viewed that way by other people if she had been more public about that. And that might. And I think that's fair.   - Mike Thibideau But I also know that that narrative has evolved in the last five years. I've seen just how this narrative has evolved just even in the last two or three and. Even in my own workplace, I can say, granted, I had been vulnerable even during my interview about my personal recovery, and I introduced myself as a person in recovery, my first day and my first staff meeting.   - Mike Thibideau But even along with that, within a day of that disclosure, I think I had maybe was five people within my own workplace come forward to me and talk to me about the struggles and loved ones of theirs that had. Which is kind of really a showcase to me, the power that that vulnerability can have,   - Liesel Mertes Absolutely I I resonate with that in my own in my own areas of loss. You know, it is the power of, like, giving voice to that. And it's amazing exactly what you said, whether, you know, from the leadership level on down, how that gives other people the space to think. I can give voice to this to.   - Liesel Mertes Mike, I'm going to link information about workforce recovery in the show notes is the best way for people to be in touch with you via your website or via the phone that, you know, if there's an H.R. director or, you know, company leader who says, I really want to avail myself of these resources, how should they be in touch with you?   - Mike Thibideau So right on the front page, the program page of our website, if you go to Wellness Indiana Douglas Recovery and you scroll down just a little bit below the slider, I think the first button you see says schedule a free conversation today or like start a conversation today. If you click on that, that my email pops up and I'm happy to talk with anybody about anything, and I can pretty much say fairly reliably, if I can't direct you, if I can't help you, I can direct you to somebody who can.   - Mike Thibideau And I am happy to do so for any business or really anyone who just wants to talk. And do what do at least do what we can for them?   - Liesel Mertes Yeah, well, thank you, Mike. Thank you for sharing not only about your work, but out of your own story today. Appreciate it. I'm I'm going to get ready to click stop recording unless. Is there anything else that you'd like to add before we officially stop recording?   - Mike Thibideau I'm just really grateful for the ability to tell my story, I'm grateful for the life that I'm able to have and grateful that my daughter and soon to be daughters, you know, God willing, never have to know that old me.   - Mike Thibideau And only get to have a dad that gets to be around and present for them. So thank you for the opportunity. And I'm I just want people to know that this is a great life to live if you let it be.   MUSICAL TRANSITION   Here are three key take-aways from my conversation with Mike Supportive workplaces matter.Mike talked about the impact of a boss and workplace that let him take the time he needed as he dealt with his addiction.  And I am so glad to learn more about the supports that are available through Indiana Workforce Recovery.  Check out their resources in the show notes. Providing support for caregivers and family members is also important.Mike talked about how his mom felt unable to share, like her struggle was cloaked in shame and judgment.  Leaders, you are part of creating a safe space where people can talk and receive support, without fear of judgment.  If you are someone that is struggling with addiction, or love someone that is, I want to remind you of the Mike’s closing words.There is a great life available to live and resources to help you get there.  And as point 3b, you might want to pick up a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People   OUTRO     Learn more about Indiana Workforce Recovery here:  https://www.wellnessindiana.org/recovery/

Welcome back!Today we are kicking off the LOVE series with Mackenzie Martin. This interview was so special as we got to have a really good and honest and powerful conversation about dance.. the highs and lows. Mackenzie offers up her outlook on the power of movement, connection and authenticity which I hope will inspire you as much as it inspired me!BIO:Mackenzie is a Los Angeles based choreographer and entrepreneur and recognized both nationally and internationally for her distinctive and artistically grounded choreography and her ability to create a sense of space. Her professional credits include Missy Elliot, Lululemon, Donovan Woods, Sephora, Caesar's Palace, DanceOn, Polica and Simon Birch's "14th Factory" and is a two time Capezio A.C.E Awards nominee.Mackenzie is the Director of LA contemporary dance company GEOMETRY, the CEO & Co-Founder of Soul de Soul Dance Convention where she also teaches on faculty. She is the founder and developer of MMMETHOD; a comprehensive holistic approach to movement and technique grounded in a mindful ethos. She has had the honor of being invited to showcase work and full length concerts across the world in Scotland, Greece, Italy, Australia and Spain and presented her research entitled "Intentions: Getting Present for Contemporary Movement" at the World Congress of Dance in Athens, Greece.Mackenzie is on faculty at AMDA College of the Performing Arts in Hollywood. Before COVID-19 she was teaching weekly open classes at IAF Compound in North Hollywood, her classes can be found online via IAF PRIME, a virtual platform for the studio. She is also guest faculty at Broadway Dance Center and Peridance in New York. Mackenzie is also a judge and guest faculty for West Coast Dance Elite. Mackenzie is a proud member of the International Dance Council (CID) and has had the privilege of teaching throughout the United States, Europe, Greece and New Zealand.She is represented by GTA for dance, choreography, and education.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_mackenzie_martin_/Website: https://www.mackenziemartininc.com

Whether you love "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and hate "Simon Birch," or you've never read the book but love the movie, or somehow, inexplicably, love both, we've got you covered. Tune in to hear how our resident movie critic, Carolyn Paine, felt about this wild Hallmark meets Chicken Soup for the Soul version of John Irving's beloved novel; learn why Rebecca Lavoie will never (NEVER!) watch this movie; get a deep dive into the merits or lack thereof from our hosts. Also, take a slight detour into The Gilmore Girls, Friday Night Lights, Northern Exposure, and the story of Rebecca's neighbors' attempts to convert her. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/midlit/support

In this episode of Check It/Round Table Onna discusses the film Simon Birch about two misfit kids growing up in a small community in Maine in the 1960's. Onna considers how this was one of her favorite films as a small child and how this film shows how heroes can arise and how family is defined not by blood, but by care. It's all here. It's all real. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/onnabob/support

This week the boys enter autumn with some Hollywood tearjerkers from September 18, 1998: ONE TRUE THING starring Meryl Streep, SIMON BIRCH starring the kid from “Simon Birch”, and - saddest of all - the parade of misery that is Brett Ratner’s RUSH HOUR...

Danny talks with his Mom about knowing what your kids are up to, why she became a nurse, how difficult it is to become a nurse, bangs, naming your kids, our first time seeing The Exorcist, my grandpa’s balls, fear of transients, Brett Barto’s fondest memory of Mom, starting drinking young, a vacation to Ensenada, how it was raising Danny, the best neighbors, the time Danny got Simon Birch’d, Celina’s wedding, entering our family, Danny’s grandma’s savagery, getting spoiled, another wild story never before told on Alternate Take, how COVID-19 has affected Mom’s job, and Mom’s Top 10 Beefs with Danny. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alternatetakedm/support

This week we mix it up as Quentin and Darius collaborate with Team Coco to produce a live taping recorded during NBA All Star Weekend 2020. For this one the fellas are joined by comedian Lil Rel Howery and of course, the three get into everything Chicago. This hilarious episode highlights Lil Rel’s early comedic career coming up in Chicago, with Rel reminiscing about the time he snuck into a comedy club for his first live show. He also touches on what it was like to watch Q play at Whitney Young and how Richardson’s DePaul team remains one of his favorite college basketball teams of all time. The guys then touch on Rel’s mentors, getting into why Eddie Murphy influenced so many comedians — though Rel reveals that J.B. Smoove was the first comic to have him “dyin’ laughing.” He also talks about doing Uncle Drew and why working with Shaq and Nate Robinson on a daily basis is A LOT. The guys then focus on the Celebrity All-Star game, in which they played together. Lil Rel has a bone to pick with Darius, since D struggled to pass him the ball. Later on, Rel explains why Get Out was such a special project to be a part of and stands firm in his belief that it should have won an Oscar. Lil Rel brings the pride of Chicago and a whole lot of laughs to Knuckleheads’ second-ever live event!

Comedian, Grant Gorman stops by for a fun chat about the horrors of Olive Garden and Simon Birch, and a family comes together!

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This week we are mourning summer & dreading winter with Poison The Well’s The Opposite Of December and August Rush. We run through the Trustkill Records lineup and reminisce. “They were like Every Time I Die, but horny.” We learn that Joey is a card-carrying member of both the Poison The Well and Terminator 3 street teams. Mike does his best impression of Ryan Primack to deliver an actual important message. Tyler compares Poison The Well to an interaction he once had with a pigeon while reminding us how sick 2004-2007 scenecore was. We clearly have nothing but good things to say about August Rush, especially Tyler who blesses us with one of his famous plot synopses. Mike nearly forgot that ROBERT Williams is in the movie, so please talk trash on him in our email please. Also, we got a new review. If you leave us one, we’ll do more than shout you out – listen to the end for details. Whine & Cheese: A Podcast About Whiny Records and Cheesy Movies began in Spring 2018. It is a love letter to all things whiny and cheesy from Rites of Spring to Hawthorne Heights, Varsity Blues to Fifty First Dates, and everything in between. Listen as the trio of Joey Breeding, Mike Paulshock, and Tyler Smith mix and match two of life’s great audio and visual pleasures. Twitter and Instagram. While you’re at it, email us with your pairing suggestions, questions, Weird Al parodies, and comments! As always, ratings & reviews go a long way and are appreciated. Thanks LVAC for the support! Art by Jon Weed (check him out, he rules!) The post WHINE & CHEESE 34: AKA SIMON BIRCH? appeared first on Cinepunx.

This week we are mourning summer & dreading winter with Poison The Well’s The Opposite… The post WHINE & CHEESE 34: AKA SIMON BIRCH? appeared first on Cinepunx.

The hits of 1975 keep coming as Vanessa and Olivia dig into the soapy melodrama The Other Side of the Mountain! But mostly they just talk about John Travolta, Nash Bridges, and Simon Birch! Check out that interview with Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly at https://ew.com/movies/2019/06/06/jennifer-tilly-gina-gershon-revisit-lesbian-neo-noir-bound/

Podcast fav Victoria Longwell (UCB Harold YETI) and newcomer Alex Bernard (UCB Harold Scream) come by to talk Break Ups and One Night (No) Stands. Victoria tells of her first breakup and being stranded with a flip phone and Alex talks about his murphy bed hook up and realizing things weren't as they seemed. This leads to scenes about the prophet Simon Birch, talking down your boners, going home with frogs, good scary stories and bad pick ups! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy ( https://www.acast.com/privacy ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-meat-improv-with-jake-jabbour-and-josh-simpson/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Look, we here at TPT love the work of the Duplass Brothers as much as the next person, but the mundanity of their films makes it difficult to fill up an hour, which is why we went off on a tangent about Simon Birch for the better part of this episode. Just can't let Jim Carrey go. Enjoy! 

We return to stranded! We finish our discussion on John Irving’s novelization of Simon Birch! Daniel grows tired of the Strand 80! Also: a game is played! 21:45 Booktalk TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

Danny talks with Tommy about their mom, them being roommates, past guests, Danny’s mustache, Tommy’s girlfriend Alex, farts, their parent’s upcoming doom, love, blazers, wisdom, who looks older, racial jokes, why they have no emotions, family history, Tatum’s graduation, old lady hair, Tommy’s week in San Diego, bees, golf, vaginas, Simon Birch, F.R.I.E.N.D.S., ghosts, dick in face, Olivia Wilde, their Dad's misogyny, Women's World Cup, soccer bodies, Hope Solo, water polo, their hope for Celi's wedding, a phone conversation with Alex, butthole play, Celina and Dylan, experiences with girlfriends' parents, how Tommy got conceived, favorite meals, shout outs, "you know who you are", best dog movies, trips to Blockbuster, good cries, and The Comedy Store. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alternatetakedm/support

Partially recorded in a bar in the Salt Lake City Airport, so the audio is not great. So,if you are new to the pod maybe go back and listen to some previous episodes. You must build your JP constitution before listening to a car or airport episode. However, if you are a regular listening JERK, get past the audio and understand why “whoever sits on the beef-tongue has a bad boyfriend!”“You know who else retired from acting? Simon Birch.”#FlagBlind

Mark Steven Johnson grew up as a huge fan of Saturday Night Live. Mesmerized by comedy, he thought he could make it as a writer from an early age. Eventually, Johnson found his voice from reading scripts and watching new films. Soon, he wrote ‘Grumpy Old Men,’ which brought a fresh voice to Hollywood as most people were unaware ice fishing even existed. As the writer-director made a transition from character films to Marvel movies, he noticed the theme of the underdog stood out in all of his work. As he writer, Johnson has credits for the ‘Grumpy Old Men’ series, ‘Simon Birch,’ ‘Daredevil,’ ‘Ghost Rider,’ and ‘Christopher Robin.’ In his newest film, he’s back in the director’s chair for ‘Finding Steve McQueen.’ The ironic true story heist film takes place in 1972. According to IMDB, “A gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions and blackmail money from President Richard Nixon's secret fund.” In this interview, Johnson discusses the missing middle movie in today’s film world, the key to original characters, the importance of a backstory, the importance of character limitations, and why writing what you feel may be more important than writing what you know. If you enjoyed this interview, join thousands of viewers for the new YouTube series, Creative Principles, which dissects new films, series, and more: bit.ly/2FARJz5

The Men with all the fear are back! Corey and Norm dive into Oscar winner Ben Affleck's adaptation of The Man without Fear 2003's Daredevil, but not just one Daredevil film but two (Theatrical and Directors Cut), directed by the man who brought us Simon Birch! Our heroes answer questions like Do you remember Simon Birch? Do you remember Coolio? Do you remember how great till movie is? RIP Stan Lee

Have you ever struggled with staying on the correct path? With seeing the forest amidst the trees? Keeping on the journey we know we need to be on to be happy? Well, we have the solution for you, and the happy news is we talk about it in this episode. PLEASE NOTE; There is a spoiler alert for the movie "Simon Birch" between 14:50 and 15:40 Thank you @JamesKocian, your music sure makes our podcast pop. Thanks for writing it for us, we so appreciate it and you! We went a little crazy on this episode. We used "Another Perfect Day", "Bumper 1", "More Beautiful" and "Personal Reflection". You can check out more of his talent (including his new CD) at www.JamesKocian.com or www.Facebook.com/JamesKocianMusic www.HappyLife.lol www.Facebook.com/HappyLifeStudios www.Instagram.com/HappyLife_Studios www.Twitter.com/HappyLifStudios www.PayPal.me/StevoHays Camp Daniels social media http://www.campdaniel.org/ www.facebook.com/camp.daniel.5 www.instagram.com/camp_daniel

The real Bob Newhart’s fake phone call skills are on full display as our hosts watch the first and last episode of Newhart with special guest star Kelley! A satiated Ari doesn’t leave for ice cream during the first segment. The finale has a stunning twist the likes of which the What Happending podcast has never witnessed. DragonHeart, Cop Rock, Dr. Sisqo, Clifford, Daniel Day Lewis’s GoGurt, and Simon Birch storytime are also discussed.

@NateMillyunz & @simonhodapp sit down with @TheWisemenShow to discuss their forthcoming masterpiece "Love & War" set to be released in mid June!! Follow us EVERYWHERE!!! www.youtube.com/thewisemenshow www.twitter.com/thewisemenshow www.instagram.com/thewisemenshow www.facebook.com/thewisemenshow itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-w…d1089009194?mt=2 tunein.com/radio/The-Wisemen-Show-p1035646/

Jeff, Dylan, and Adam take a nostalgic look at the 1998 film, Simon Birch on this episode. Hear our take on the small hero, Jim Carrey’s cameo, and the faith portrayed in the Rockwellian setting. Aside from getting a little obsessed over Oliver Platt and his performance, there dissension among the hosts as to the overall quality of this film and its portrayal of faith.   Review of Simon Birch (00:03:46) Ratings and Redeemed Perspectives (01:05:34) Staff Pic (01:14:57)   PLOT SUMMARY Simon Birch and his best friend Joe Wenteworth live in a small New Hampshire town during the 1960’s.  Simon and Joe are both outcasts in their town.  Simon, because he is a little person, and Joe because he is the “town bastard.”  Simon believes that his small stature is the means in which God will use him for a heroic purpose.  Joe, after losing his mother, and with the help of Simon is determined to find out who is Father is and is less accepting of his place in life.   RELEVANT LINKS From Our Review of Simon Birch Steven Johnson (Writer and Director for Simon Birch) Grumpy Old Men (1993 Film) Grumpier Old Men (1993 Film) Daredevil (2003 Film) Elektra (2005 Film) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) 13 Facts About A Prayer for Owen Meany (Mental Floss Article… Face #13 pertains to the author’s feelings about Simon Birch) Jurassic Park (1993 Film) The Cure (1995 Film) Joseph Mazzello (Actor, Joe in Simon Birch) Jim Carrey (Actor, Comedian) Ashley Judd (Actor) Matthew 5:1-12 (The Beatitudes) Tommy Boy (1995 Film) From Our Ratings and Redeemed Perspectives Segment Carl Rogers (American Psychologist) Humanistic Psychology Les Misérables (1998 Film) Staff Picks Stand by Me (1986 Film) YOUR SUPPORT Thank you for listening to Divine Cinema.  If you appreciate the show please consider sharing your appreciation by rating, reviewing and/or subscribing to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher or on whatever platform you’re listening. You can also help support the show financially by going to DivineCinema.net/Amazon to do your Amazon shopping. This will cost you nothing, but Amazon will give a portion of the proceeds to the show. OUR NEXT MOVIE The Visitation will be our next film.  This movie is tough to find, but it is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Frank Peretti. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? Let us know what you think about the show and/or suggest a movie you’d like us to review in the future. Any and all feedback is welcome. Contact us through the following links...   Email Us at feedback@divinecinema.net Follow Us on Twitter Like Us on Facebook Listen & Subscribe to Us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Android, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker and SoundCloud Speak to Us on our Feedback Page See Us on Instagram Support Us on Amazon Love Us?   This post may contain affiliate links.  Divine Cinema is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com

Welcome to the all-new No Proscenium Podcast. The format has changed!  But we've still got an amazing guest for you: contemporary artist Simon Birch, the creator of The 14th Factory, which has been turning heads in Los Angeles since it opened. The 14th Factory is three acres of art--much of it immersive--and all of it designed to create a sense of awe and wonder. It's a can't miss spot in LA this summer. Plus we check in with Ricky Brigante of Inside The Magic to talk about an otherworldly  attraction in Orlando. All that and more on the all-new No Pro: brought to you by listeners like you!

This episode is from 11,000 feet on New York Mountain outside of Eagle Colorado in a backcountry Yurt during a recent ski hut trip I went on with 7 guys. I recorded a few of our conversations that ended up being about a couple of movies like La La Land, Simon Birch and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty. We talked about the lessons those movies have taught us about our own life.

This episode is from 11,000 feet on New York Mountain outside of Eagle Colorado in a backcountry Yurt during a recent ski hut trip I went on with 7 guys. I recorded a few of our conversations that ended up being about a couple of movies like La La Land, Simon Birch and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty. We talked about the lessons those movies have taught us about our own life.

In this podcast guest presenter Roisin Ni Mhordha interviews Emily Quinn - Fashion and Portait photographer. On a day when she launched her exhibition 'Shooting the Talented'. Emily talks about the background to the exhibition and her career working with some of the most famous Irish and international photographers including Conor Horgan, Lorna Fitzsimons, Simon Birch and Perry Ogden. Roisin explores the impact of digital technology on the work of the photographer.