Podcasts about Tick

In this episode of “Answers From the Lab,” host Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, and William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, discuss the increasing rates of tick-borne diseases and how to test for and prevent them. They also discuss what to watch from a federal legislative standpoint now that Congress is back in session.

Based in Atlanta, Zack is currently on the national tour of the hit Broadway musical Ain't Too Proud: The Life & Times of the Temptations and is also the co-host of Working Drummer Podcast. Over his 20-year career, Zack has played many musical roles and built a reputation as a tasteful craftsman behind the drums. His professional path began on the rich and vibrant jazz scene in Kansas City where he attended graduate school. He then spent five years freelancing in Los Angeles, playing frequently with organist Ty Bailie, vibraphonist Nick Mancini, and performing as a staff musician at Disneyland. He has called Atlanta home since 2016, where highlights have included Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics, The ATL Collective, and session work in his home studio.Working Drummer Podcast: https://www.workingdrummer.netAin't Too Proud: https://ainttooproudmusical.comFor more, subscribe to Broadway Drumming 101 here:When you subscribe for only $5 a month, you will receive behind-the-scenes access to the life of a musician who makes a living on Broadway. We also have merchandise!https://merchandise.broadwaydrumming101.comClayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and Newsletter. He has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain't Too Proud.The Broadway Drumming 101 Instagram page: InstagramThe Broadway Drumming 101 YouTube page: YouTubeFor more about Clayton, click HERE Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

Today we talk about finding meaning in our work and using and spending our time in the best possible way to create more space doing the things we love and avoid that feeling of overwhelm that so many of us experience.  To do so, I welcome the first husband and wife duo on the show Melissa Ambrosini and Nick Broadhurst. Melissa is a best selling self help author of Mastering Your Mean Girl, Open Wide, and Comparisonitis) and is an entrepreneur, and host of the top-rated podcast The Melissa Ambrosini Show, and Nick is a is a musician, a former member of ARIA award-winning band Sneaky Sound System, entrepreneur and now author – and as we learn in this chat a man of many talents. Whether you are building or running a business, working for others or running a household, overwhelm can creep up on us pretty quickly, we often feel time poor, like we don't enough time for doing the things that we enjoy, that feeling of never reaching the end of our to do list, the endless open tabs in our heads – from work tasks to life tasks. Melissa and Nick have recently written their new book together called Time Magic that helps you to discover the surprising ways you're losing time, the simple techniques to reclaim it... and even how to make more of it. We discuss: Practical advice and actions to free up more time in your life What life can look like when we create more space How to hack you everyday longevity and health hacks Productivity systems that help you to manage your life (such as Nick's new Tick or Flick system) How we make technology work for us and not against us. Connect with Melissa & Nick https://www.instagram.com/melissaambrosini/ https://www.instagram.com/nickbroadhurst/    To learn more about Guide Your Light Network visit www.guideyourlightnetwork.com Or email: info@guideyourlightnetwork.com Connect with Maritza  https://www.instagram.com/maritza_barone/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's Phone Tap victim thinks he's having a state-of-the-art security system installed while he's at work, but we sent Jose over to rig his place with Home Alone-style booby traps instead! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's Phone Tap victim thinks he's having a state-of-the-art security system installed while he's at work, but we sent Jose over to rig his place with Home Alone-style booby traps instead! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Warmer spring conditions could bring early cases of diseases from ticks and mosquitos. Some Connetquot residents say the high school's principal was wrongfully pushed out by the school board. Grants from the Mohegan Tribe will expand Native American studies in Connecticut schools. And Governor Kathy Hochul is at odds with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over New York's budget.

Tony Jones Show #223 - With music from: Candy Ambulance, Jonee Earthquake Band, Tony Jones & the Jerktones, Deer Tick, 61 Ghosts, Russ Carrick, Sunshine Riot, Sourpunch, World Inferno/Friendship Society, The Benji's, The Dust Ruffles, Hayley and the Crushers, Justine and the Unclean, Carissa Johnson, The Doll Eyes, Sugar Cones, The Dirge Carolers

Tick season generally begins late March/early April when the weather starts to warm and dormant ticks start looking for food. As we've see warmer weather as of late, the CDC is warning about a rise in babesiosis cases in the northeast region of the U.S. A CDC study reveals that babesiosis is an endemic in ten states, including Massachusetts. Tick Man Dan joined Dan to discuss!

Tick season generally begins late March/early April when the weather starts to warm and dormant ticks start looking for food. As we've see warmer weather as of late, the CDC is warning about a rise in babesiosis cases in the northeast region of the U.S. A CDC study reveals that babesiosis is an endemic in ten states, including Massachusetts. Tick Man Dan joined Dan to discuss!

Around 2 months ago a friend of mine in London wanted to introduce me to a start-up, that he said was making big changes in the well-being space. I reluctantly agreed to meet the team and to my surprise, the idea they pitched blew me away. In fact, as cheesy as it sounds, they got me at 'Hello!'For full disclosure, I ended up investing in the organisation because they have one free component. I'm on the board of directors and also offering tech advice. JAAQ, an online mental well-being platform was founded by Danny Gray. He's well known in the UK for having one of the most successful 'Dragons Den' pitches for 'War Paint' his men's make-up brand. He's very passionate about protecting others from going through the same mental health challenges as him. Danny Gray is the founder of men's make-up brand 'War Paint' and more recently an online mental well-being platform, JAAQ. He lives with body dysmorphic disorder, a mental health condition that inspired him to launch both of his companies. Part of Danny's mission is to provide better access to support, for anyone concerned about their mental health.Trigger warning - This episode includes mention of suicide Listen as we discuss:04:30 - The personal story08:00 - The breakdown?09:13: - Body dysmorphic disorder14:00 - Reaching out for help18:00 - War Paint21:00 - Everyone is struggling with something25:00 - JAAQ: The mission and the purpose30:00 - Making the World Better32:00 - Suicide and depression35:00 - Tick box organisations38:00 - Where next for JAAQ?41:30 - Mental health crisis in the corporate world44.30 - Get to know the challenge early46:00 - Eating disorders48:30 - The avengers of healthcare50:30 - Breaking down barriers of what people think mental health is52:30 - Depression Vs unhappiness53:30 - Artificial intelligence and mental health58:00 - The right people in your life can make you happyConnect with Danny Gray on Instagram @danny.h.grayYouTube: @mogawdatofficialInstagram: @mo_gawdatFacebook: @mo.gawdat.officialTwitter: @mgawdatLinkedIn: /in/mogawdatWebsite: mogawdat.comDon't forget to subscribe to Slo Mo for new episodes every Saturday. Only with your help can we reach One Billion Happy #onebillionhappy

Do Ticks drink your blood? How many kinds of Ticks are there? How long have Ticks been around... annoying people and dinosaurs? After the episode, check out today's SMARTYQUIZ email to test how well you smarted! If you're not getting our free SMARTYQUIZ email, you're really missing out on a great opportunity to lock in the learning from Who Smarted?! It's our gift to you, FREE, 3 times a week! Sign up here. For free home activities sign-up at www.WhoSmarted.com

Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening!   For the last six years, David Blum worked for Audible as the editor-in-chief of Audible Originals. Previously, Blum served as the founding editor of Kindle Singles, the store for original, high-quality longform fiction and nonfiction on Kindle. He began his career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and has worked as a contributing editor at New York Magazine (where he coined the term "Brat Pack"), Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. He has also written for The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. In 2006 Blum became editor-in-chief of The Village Voice, and later served as editor-in-chief of the New York Press and 02138 Magazine. Blum's first book, "Flash In The Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant," was published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, and was named a notable nonfiction book of the year by The New York Times Book Review. His second book, "Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes," was published by HarperCollins in 2004.

Spring is right around the corner, and with it, those vicious blood suckers that cause over half a million Americans to fall ill each year: ticks. No matter your favorite outdoor pursuit, ticks pose a significant problem. Fortunately, there are many things we can do to protect ourselves and our loved ones while in the field. In this episode of the Wisconsin Sportsman Podcast, Josh talks with Brian Anderson, the Tick Terminator, about preventing ticks and avoiding tick-borne illness. Brian is known as the top speaker and educator on tick prevention in the USA  dedicated to the outdoor worker, hunter, camper, and the outdoor enthusiast. In this episode, Brian shares how he became a top expert on tick prevention and gives tons of helpful tips to avoid ticks and avoid tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease.Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast Network for more relevant outdoor content!Connect with Josh and The Wisconsin Sportsman Podcast on Instagram.Connect with the How to Hunt Deer Podcast on Instagram.Find  Brian Anderson, "The Tick Terminator" online.Big thanks to our partners!TACTACAMHuntworth

Spring is right around the corner, and with it, those vicious blood suckers that cause over half a million Americans to fall ill each year: ticks. No matter your favorite outdoor pursuit, ticks pose a significant problem. Fortunately, there are many things we can do to protect ourselves and our loved ones while in the field.  In this episode of the Wisconsin Sportsman Podcast, Josh talks with Brian Anderson, the Tick Terminator, about preventing ticks and avoiding tick-borne illness. Brian is known as the top speaker and educator on tick prevention in the USA dedicated to the outdoor worker, hunter, camper, and the outdoor enthusiast. In this episode, Brian shares how he became a top expert on tick prevention and gives tons of helpful tips to avoid ticks and avoid tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease. Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast Network for more relevant outdoor content! Connect with Josh and The Wisconsin Sportsman Podcast on Instagram. Connect with the How to Hunt Deer Podcast on Instagram. Find Brian Anderson, "The Tick Terminator" online. Big thanks to our partners! TACTACAM Huntworth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever considered the potential harm of flea and tick collars?  Having a pet, specifically a dog or a cat is a dream and desire of many people all around the world…until we realize the  different fleas and pests that enjoy living on the skin of our furry companions. To avoid this, most pet owners turn to flea and tick collars… While these collars are a popular method for preventing fleas and ticks from infesting our pets, recent studies have raised concerns about their safety. Many pet owners may not be aware of the risks associated with these collars, and my aim today is to shed light on this important issue. We'll explore the potential dangers of flea and tick collars, including the harmful chemicals they contain, their impact on pet health, the potential impact on human health, and how to choose safer alternatives.  My goal today is to provide you with a better understanding of the issue and what we can do to protect our pets. Whether you're a seasoned pet owner or considering getting a new companion, this episode will provide valuable information to keep your pets safe and healthy. Thank you to our sponsor: Therasage is offering the listeners of the show 15% off your order. Go to www.therasage.com and use code DARIN at checkout for 15% off. Code is valid on the Thera360 PLUS personal infrared sauna and sitewide! Find more from Darin:   Website: https://darinolien.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Darinolien/ Book: https://darinolien.com/fatal-conveniences-book/ Down to Earth: https://darinolien.com/down-to-earth/  

You're in for a treat this week! Shine your boots and report for duty as the guys sit down for a good talk with Glen (one N) Reich. Glen is a friend of the show that has helped the guys grow behind the scenes. But Glen has some pretty good stories to tell and one of them involves those hellacious demons we know as ticks. Glen relives his time in basic training as a private, in which he had an upclose encounter with a tick, on his private. Follow that? Around the state there is a lot of fun spring activities in the works. Water safety council meetings, Geology days, Spring flowers, and Hatchery open houses. Paul will be on his way to Florida when the show releases for his first Osceola hunt. Navigating the swamps with gators, snakes, ticks, and more! Andrew is getting ready to head to Oklahoma in a couple weeks for some hog hunting, so gearing up for that, but not ready to go yet. Happy to announce a new partner to the program, Xvision optics. Check these guys out, and be on the look out for more content from this awesome optics company. Make sure you guys check out our friends at GoWild, Midwest Gun Works, XVision optics, Half Rack, and First lite! Have a great week and enjoy the O2 if you get out into Ohio's great Outdoors! Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast Network for more relevant outdoor content! www.theo2podcast.com GoWild Profile First Lite MidWest Gun Works HalfRack Instagram: @the.o2.podcast Twitter: @Ohiohunt Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interview by Haze https://www.instagram.com/mike_tall We recently sat down with Memphis rapper Gloss Up for an exclusive “Off The Porch” interview! During our conversation she talked about how much her life has changed in 2022, growing up in South Memphis, her upbringing, having 3 siblings, moving out of her mom's house when she was 17, getting into a lot of fights when she was older, dropping her first song in 2015, Glitter Gang, getting Glorilla in 2019, living with Glorilla, explains how she met K Carbon, knowing HitKidd before "Set The Tone”, HitKidd putting her in the studio with Glorilla, K Carbon, Aleza & Simeroni, having 2 kids, motherhood, being featured on HitKidd's song “Freak Junt” with Juicy J, explains how her new deal with QC came about, the music scene in Memphis right now, putting a lot of money into her career, her new single “DPWM”, her freestyle to “Tick”, her creative process, focusing on singles & videos right now, wanting to work with Lizzo & DJ Khaled, goals, and much more!

The guys are talking with Swamp Buck Camo tonight to see just what makes Swamp Buck Camo tick. President Jason Hepfler gives us a behind the scenes look into how they got their start and what you can expect from their camo gear! By the way, it's not just for hunting! Check out their fishing apparel as well! Jason's background into the hunting scene Starting as a kid Who taught him about the outdoors What hunting was like as a youth in Wisconsin Family traditions How hunting led to thinking about camo What was the thing that triggered the start of Swamp Buck Camo? How it all started Where did he get help from What were some of the things to overcome The camo offerings now What makes Swamp Buck Camo stand out from the rest What are some of the features of their camo apparel  The flannel shirt line of gear. How did the flannel line start What did Jay Gregory have to do with it? What colors are available How did the fishing side of the line come into play? What does Swamp Buck Camo offer in the fishing line now Our four questions that give a little insight into who Jason Hepfler is  

Peter Saleh is a multi-faceted percussionist, drummer, and teacher. Other notable performances include Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Brooklyn Metro Orchestra, Bay Atlantic Symphony, “Distant Worlds: Final Fantasy”, and a solo recital tour of Taiwan and Korea. He was drummer/percussionist for the world premiere Productions of "Mystic Pizza", "The Nutty Professor", and "Mr Holland's Opus" as well as the regional premiere of "The Cher Show" at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine and he can also be heard on 2019's "Carols for a Cure, vol. 21" with the cast of Broadway's "Hamilton". Peter recently celebrated 20 years as a member of the Exit 9 Percussion Group with nearly 500 performances, including a November 2021 tour in Ecuador as cultural envoy for the US State department. Saleh's published music is performed widely and his “A Percussionist's Handbook” (Bachovich) has been called a "survival guide for today's percussionist" (Pablo Rieppi). As a musician for dance, Saleh has presented collaborative work at the Aliey Citigroup Theater, The Joffrey School, and NJPAC. Since 2011, Peter has been an accompanist at The Juilliard School, and spent 5 years grooving with the Ailey Samba class percussion section. Saleh founded and directed the Rutgers Youth Percussion Ensemble for 15 seasons, which received wide praise for its performances at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival, PAS/NYU Weekend of Percussion, and The Players Theater, and he continues to enthusiastically teach the next generation of drummers and percussionists.Peter endorses Pearl/Adams Instruments and Sabian Cymbals and is the inventor of the patented “Switchboard” percussion table. Order the Switchboard Percussion System HERE: https://www.gigwithswitchboard.comFor more, subscribe to Broadway Drumming 101 here: When you subscribe for only $5 a month, you will receive behind-the-scenes access to the life of a musician who makes a living on Broadway through YouTube videos, bi-weekly podcasts, and articles on what you need to know. We also have merchandise! https://merchandise.broadwaydrumming101.comClayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and Newsletter. He has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain't Too Proud.The Broadway Drumming 101 Instagram page: InstagramThe Broadway Drumming 101 YouTube page: YouTubeFor more about Clayton, click HERE Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

This is a LIVE replay of A Trauma Survivor Thriver's Podcast which aired Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 1130am ET on Fireside Chat.  Today's guest is Christine MacDonald, Author of the memoir, Face Value, From Stripper Pole to Baring My Soul.  Lorilee Binstock  00:00:38  Welcome. I'm Lorilee Binstock and this is A Trauma Survivor Thriver's Podcast. Thank you so much for joining me live on Fireside chat where you can be a part of the conversation as my virtual audience. I am your host glory been stock. Everyone has an opportunity to ask me or our guest questions by requesting to hop on stage or sending a message in the chat box. I will try to get to you, but I do ask that everyone be respectful. Today's guest is Christine Macdonald's author of the book Face Value: From Stripper Pole to Baring my Soul, which actually comes out two today, And you could actually, if you are interested that scrolling fortune cookie right there in the middle of your screen, that will take you to purchase her book. Christine, thank you so much for joining me today. Christine Macdonald  00:01:43  Oh, I'm so happy to be here. Can you hear me? Lorilee Binstock  00:01:45  I can hear you perfectly. Thank you so much. Christine Macdonald  00:01:48  Yeah. Thank you. Lorilee Binstock  00:01:49  So I I wanted to get to to it because I feel like there's so much to cover with your story. You have struggled a lot with trauma as a child, which eventually led you into the adulthood repayment industry. I just wanna to know if you could just share journey a little bit with us. Christine Macdonald  00:02:08  Oh, I'm happy too. And you're right. There's there's a whole bunch of... It's like wheel Fortune named named that trauma. But here's... But here's the thing. Don't we all have something in our lives? And, of course, it's not a contest. Right? So every single one of us, I'm of the belief that we're all in recovery from something. And, of course, more, Lorilee Binstock  00:02:20  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:02:29  you know, there are some people who have a a harder journey, But, yes, I've had some several traumas as a child. It really just compounded my choices that I made as a young adult, so I started out the the trauma really started when I was at age thirteen, and I just just you know, thirteen is such a tender age as it is. Right? I mean, you're a freshman in high school and Lorilee Binstock  00:02:56  Hormones. Christine Macdonald  00:02:58  exact. And so all of a sudden, and I started noticing these big blood filled cysts all over my face, my chest, my back, Lorilee Binstock  00:03:06  Well. Christine Macdonald  00:03:07  And I didn't know what was going on. And I I just kept telling my mom. This is... I don't think this is normal ask me. And, you know, God loved my mom. She just was, like, hoping it would just go away. And it didn't. So we ended up meeting to see a doctor. It turns out my diagnosis was is very, very rare. It's called Acne Michelangelo. And basically, you're it's a very severe severe form of cystic acne where normal topical solutions that this is not part of the remedy for this case. So I started seeing the doctor, and but it was too late at that point. The scars were left, and long stars short, Lorilee Binstock  00:03:47  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:03:49  you know, they called me Freddie Krueger in high school. They were mer, Lorilee Binstock  00:03:51  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:03:52  and it was just one of those things where my value was, you know, as all of ours, I think when they're at at that young and impression age, my value was just really predicated on how people thought of me. And so when people started calling me, you know, moon face, pizza face, Freddie Kruger, my self esteem just plummeted. Lorilee Binstock  00:04:13  Mhmm Christine Macdonald  00:04:13  And so on top of that, I I reached out to any substances like could fine. And it if it was the eighties. So, you know, cocaine was the glamour drug. And so that sort of just compounded the trauma with living with this disease all over my skin and my body. And then I was sexually abused at that same year at thirteen. But I was so warped with my thinking that I I really truly thought it meant I was pretty, Like, somebody Lorilee Binstock  00:04:43  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:04:44  somebody taking my virginity, somebody was giving me attention sexually, even though my face was you know, covered in these blood filled says purple golf ball size that would break open in my sleep. Lorilee Binstock  00:04:57  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:04:58  So it was just a whole little. I mean, it was definitely was definitely a lot, but it... It's interesting. I mean... And I think you can attest to this. When you suffer, it trauma and, you know, you can add to that verbal and physical abuse in the house. Lorilee Binstock  00:05:16  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:05:17  It's just it really it shapes your choices as a young adult, And that's where I fell into the stripping world because, you know, along the heels of being called Freddie Krueger, I was nineteen years old when I was asked to do a wet t contest. So I walked into this world in Waikiki key. Right, which is such a just position because it's like, Lorilee Binstock  00:05:37  Yeah Christine Macdonald  00:05:38  supposed to be paradise, and I'm I'm going through all this darkness, but I found my beauty onstage stage because I took somebody giving me a dollar bill is a validation that I was pretty much like this sexual abuse was validation that I was pretty. So that's sort of the journey, and that's what I talk about in the book. And really, it's about how I got out of it. How I pulled myself out of that world after Lorilee Binstock  00:05:52  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:06:02  a near decade of trying to find myself worth. Very long winded did answer sure for the first question? Lorilee Binstock  00:06:07  No. No. It's great. You could keep going on. Christine Macdonald  00:06:10  Yeah. Lorilee Binstock  00:06:10  But I do... You know, it kids are horrible. Teenagers are can be so horrible. I remember as a in middle school. I I had horrible teeth, my teeth actually I had teeth growing behind my teeth because my mouth was so small and so crowded. And I remember the throwing, and I tell the story a lot. I remember throwing, like, an m and m and catching it in my mouth. And I guess my mouth was open and tilted back where everyone could see, like, another like, more teeth behind my regular teeth and they were... They they started calling me sharks teeth for the longest time. Christine Macdonald  00:06:41  Mhmm. Oh, and that's yeah. Lorilee Binstock  00:06:45  And that's really it's hard. It's hard because kids can be ruthless when it comes to to, you know, making fun of people because they're insecure too. Teenagers are very insecure people, Christine Macdonald  00:06:58  Mhmm. Mhmm. Lorilee Binstock  00:06:59  and they don't understand that, you know, the reason why they're making fun of other people can their own they have their own issues that they they're too scared to deal with. Christine Macdonald  00:07:09  So true. No true. Lorilee Binstock  00:07:09  But I... Yeah. I I find it interesting to but, you know, when you are sexually abused, did you... So you... Your you're thinking was work you mentioned. Christine Macdonald  00:07:20  Mhmm. Lorilee Binstock  00:07:20  But when did you realize that that was... That was wrong that that was that that was and that was Rape, I guess. Christine Macdonald  00:07:30  It was right. Yeah. Exactly. It's interesting that you say that because I'm talking years decades. I... First of all, I knew something wasn't right because After the incident, I thought he was my boyfriend. I honestly thought he was my boyfriend, which is very sad, but it's very telling of where my mind was at the time. So I became this little st in high school. And this dude was, you know, he was sixteen years old. I was thirteen, and it was just one of those things where I truly thought that Meant was pretty and that he was my boyfriend. So I got a clue pretty early on when the rumors started swirl. And quite honestly, it took me intensive therapy, and I was in my early forties. So that's a long time. Right? I was in my forties, and I finally was able to number one, forgive myself because I felt like, Lorilee Binstock  00:08:15  Yay. Christine Macdonald  00:08:23  I was very confused. I knew there was something not right about it, but I didn't wanna call it rape. And quite honestly, you know, Amy Schumer says this in her book, she talks about something very similar. She was passed out, she was taken advantage of without her consent. So when I share that with my therapist, I felt like, I wasn't... Like, I didn't qualify if that makes sense. You know what I mean? Like, when people when people think rates, they think it's a brutal attack and and all of these things, I I was passed out and I was thirteen, and I woke up, and Lorilee Binstock  00:08:48  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:08:58  I didn't have anything on my bottoms, and it was a it was a beach penny pat camp. I mean, you can't get more hawaiian than that right? So let's could Pat camp. My bathing suit was rolled up in a ball. It had blood on it. So I knew something was up, but it took so long for me to really wrap my head around the fact that, yeah, It was great, and it's okay. Lorilee Binstock  00:09:14  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:09:21  I mean, the rake wasn't okay, but it's okay that it happened. It wasn't my fault. Lorilee Binstock  00:09:23  Right. Christine Macdonald  00:09:27  So a lot of insight with sarah truly understand, and then also forgive myself and then forgive to forgive this person. Lorilee Binstock  00:09:33  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:09:36  You know, it it wasn't a violent attack, but it just definitely was something that changed the course of my life. Lorilee Binstock  00:09:43  So... And then when you went to, you said at nineteen, you're asked to do this. What t shirt contest. Christine Macdonald  00:09:49  Mhmm. Lorilee Binstock  00:09:50  And this was what was that feeling when you were asked? And when you eventually... You you did it. I'm assuming. Christine Macdonald  00:09:57  Yes. I did it. And, you know, it's interesting because I was with one of my girlfriends, and she's in the book prominently, And it's a funny funny way how we met, and I won't spoil it for you, But she she she was the other woman. I found her information and who I thought was my boyfriend, You can see the theme here. Lorilee Binstock  00:10:15  Yeah Christine Macdonald  00:10:15  Very toxic partner, he was ten years older than I was. He was a drug dealer. I mean, all sorts of bad news, which, of course, I was completely attracted to. Lorilee Binstock  00:10:25  yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:10:26  But I found this women's information in his things, and so I just picked up the phone and called her and said, look, I don't know if you know this. But I'm with this guy, and then she said, oh, oh my god. I had no idea anyway, Long story short her and I became girlfriends. She is be beautiful. And and, Lorilee Binstock  00:10:41  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:10:44  you know, one of those Barbie doll looking girls that are just so natural, not like fake plaster Barbie, but I'm talking, like, the quintessential Christie brink over time. You know? Lorilee Binstock  00:10:54  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:10:54  And so her and I work together on the beach And, you know, we were young. We had rock and bodies, but she was the... She was the beauty queen. Right? And I did not feel like, I was approached because of me. I was supposed to be... We were both approached because of her. And so she basically told the gentleman who was recruiting women for these what teacher contests. She'll... She says, I'll do it if my girlfriend can do it, and that that was me. She says she's a great answer. Which is true. So so the way that I felt when I was on that stage, and, of course, you know, substances were involved. So that's always something that I... Yeah. Exactly. Lorilee Binstock  00:11:32  Makes it easier. Christine Macdonald  00:11:35  The way I felt onstage stage with my big bond Jo Bush live nineteen eighty seven here in my gold eye shadow Lorilee Binstock  00:11:41  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:11:41  for the fur for the first time ever. I felt beautiful. I felt like I was hiding in plain sight, meaning my face was exposed, but it was it was just covered in in all of this eighties hair. But truly, that dollar that people were giving me on stage was so validating and just a big, like, look at who's Freddie Krueger now? You know what I mean? Like, just three years just three years earlier, Lorilee Binstock  00:12:05  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:12:07  I was cutting school because I was so tormented. So I felt nothing but validation and power and beautiful. Lorilee Binstock  00:12:15  So and this was your par into into the adult entertainment world or how how did how did you start your career in that in adult entertainment. Christine Macdonald  00:12:27  Well, ironically, you know if I won the contest, which was Lorilee Binstock  00:12:31  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:12:31  real, and I was offered a job at this chocolate bar now in Waikiki Key, back then I can't speak to the scene now, but that then the age where you could dis disprove. It was a top of bar was twenty one. So I bikini danced until I was twenty one. And by the time I you know, by the time I had my twenty first they. I was so with it. It was like, no big deal to take my top off. And then the next day, I had some customers say, well, now that you're twenty one, you could make make even more money if you go up the street to the nude bar. And so I was just full Throttle all the way through. You know? And I loved it. I loved every minute of it. Lorilee Binstock  00:13:15  Did you experience any trauma during your career as an an adult entertainer? Christine Macdonald  00:13:21  I did. I did and mostly drug related mostly with men And I would have to say, of course, I don't, you know, I don't subscribe to the the idea that I deserved it. But my choices were definitely a part of that. I chose very toxic partners, the drugs and all of that. So the trauma was sort of a revolving door, hamster wheel of you know, it's interesting the j where you feel so powerful and beautiful. But at the same time, you're you're... And for me personally, I can't speak to other dancers answers, but I felt beautiful and powerful, but it was stripping my beauty away little by little. If that makes sense. Lorilee Binstock  00:13:54  Mhmm. Did you think of that at the time though? Christine Macdonald  00:14:06  No. No. I I didn't. Only when I was writing my story, I was like, oh, man. I wanna give back a little girl hug. Lorilee Binstock  00:14:07  Right. Yeah. Oh, garrett. I mean, trauma really just builds on trauma. You're not healing it. Right? It's you know, it just... Like you said the substances is and Christine Macdonald  00:14:20  Exactly. Lorilee Binstock  00:14:23  the coping that you... And typically, it's mala until you realize it. When did you become aware? What when did you decide to get out of the adult entertainment industry? Christine Macdonald  00:14:36  Great question. I was in my late twenties, and you know, when you're in your you know, when you're facing the barrel of thirty, and you think you're getting so old. You're, like, oh my gosh. I'm gonna be thirty. Lorilee Binstock  00:14:48  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:14:50  So I I I can't you know, I don't understand the lifeline of when people go to college. You know, the norm the people that do it the right way. Right? So here I am and my, my college really was the stripping years, And I recall being sober burnt out, and this is in the book. There's a chapter called voluntary termination that I'm very proud of, and it really goes and explains step by step how I came to the realization, and it was very, very quiet. It was very simple, And I was in the dressing room. I was twenty, I would say late twenties and I And I it was very heavy on my mind thinking. Oh my gosh. I'm am I gonna be a senior citizen on the poll? Because, of course, when you're thirty, you think you're a senior head. So I'm right. It's so I'm looking in mirror, and... And I'm using my foundation and I'm covering my skin and I'm, you know, I've always had this relationship with my skin Lorilee Binstock  00:15:37  No goodness. Christine Macdonald  00:15:48  where I have for decades try to pretend my scars did not exist. But now as I'm older, I embrace my scars because they're part of who I am and I always say your flaws are your flavor. So anything that you feel embarrassed about or that you've been teased about, those things make up who you are, they're part of your flavor. So Lorilee Binstock  00:16:10  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:16:11  embrace them. But back then, I didn't... I wasn't there yet. So here I am in the dressing arm. Time of grows behind me the collected clerk of their heels, and the buzz you know, all the buzz of the girls. I don't know if you've been around a a bunch of high girls, but they're like, birds. A squat. You know, they're coffee. Lorilee Binstock  00:16:29  Oh my gosh. That's hilarious. Christine Macdonald  00:16:32  Yeah. And so they're like. So I'm I'm trying to focus on putting my makeup on. I'm kinda tuning out the girls behind me. I am really hung over as per usual. That was just another day ending and why. Right? So I'm putting my makeup on and something just hit me, and I thought, okay. And I'm looking in my eyes. I see no blue. It's all gray. And I saw myself, like, wow. You're almost thirty. What you gonna do with your life? You don't have a college education. Dropped out because you couldn't handle the hours because I was party girl. Right? And then at that very moment, when I connected with my eyes, I see a brand new girl who I've never seen before, come into the dressing room, and she was probably nineteen. Lorilee Binstock  00:17:19  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:17:19  And I looked at her, and I saw myself in her, and I thought god, I wanna just hug her and tell her save your money. I'm not gonna judge you. I'm not gonna tell you not to do this, but I wanna tell you to save your money, stay off the drugs, have a good head on your shoulders, but I didn't. I stayed in my own lane, but just seeing that girl had me flashback of the near decade career that I had. And so without even realizing it, I started putting my makeup back in my bag and lift it up, sp my bounce over my shoulders, stood up and looked in the mirror and said out loud to myself, I think you're done. Lorilee Binstock  00:17:57  Oh, wow. Christine Macdonald  00:17:58  And that I just walked out and looks for a pay phone. There was no Internet herself the back. What's for a pay phone called my mom, who I was estranged with at the time. And god lover, she... I basically said what are you doing? And I was almost crying because I was so scared, and I did know what my life gonna be... But I, of course, wanted my mommy. Lorilee Binstock  00:18:20  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:18:20  And so I called her up, and I said, what are you doing? And she I'm cooking dinner, Do you wanna come over? And I was so grateful for that because I did. I went over to her house, and my sister had just had a baby so she was holding her newborn. My mom was cooking spaghetti. So soon as a friend are open, I just... I was welcomed by that amazing smell of home. You know? Lorilee Binstock  00:18:42  Mhmm Christine Macdonald  00:18:42  And I remember looking at my sister, and I remember being at my mom's house and thinking, wow, Just an hour earlier, I was around naked. High girls talking. Like, you know what I mean? And I thought this is real life. This is what I want. And at that moment, I just asked my mom I need to move home. I need to save up money because I'm gonna get off this island and find a new life. Lorilee Binstock  00:19:04  Wow. Oh, so, you grew up in Hawaii until your moment not far from where you were were dancing. Christine Macdonald  00:19:07  Yes. Correct. Yeah. And then, unfortunately, she... I was such a nightmare addict that she... I mean, I I'm I'm not a parent. So I can't even imagine. She just... I I don't wanna say gave up, but she was just there was nothing she could do. There was no talking to me. She was just like, she's gonna need to find out on her own, Lorilee Binstock  00:19:27  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:19:31  and she prayed that I would come around and, you know, I did, which is great. Lorilee Binstock  00:19:36  And so you found you decided, okay. I'm... That road is not for me anymore. What did you end up doing? Christine Macdonald  00:19:43  Mhmm. I sold all of my belongings. I made the very naive choice to leave the island, which I don't think is really... It was not a bad decision it's probably the best decision I ever made because I found myself really having to grow up. And and I was in my late twenties. So I always say I lost in a way, a decade of my life because I was using. And so I really left the island in mentally, like, eighteen years old, nineteen years old because I'd lost so much in my life, but I was in my late twenties, and I just knew that leaving was the best decision and finding new friends and just starting over. But then, you know, couple years later, I realized, oh, you can't run away from your addictions. So that was addressed as well, which is also in the book. But the best decision, the thing that really catapult my change was leaving the island and just shake it off those those friends that you thought were friends, but they were just your party friends. Lorilee Binstock  00:20:49  So how did you... How did you work with your addiction? When did you realize? Well, it sounds like you're were like, okay. I can't I can't escape this. How did you heal from it? Or how did you break the addiction or break any of these, you know, behavioral cycles? Or actually even Christine Macdonald  00:21:06  Mhmm. Lorilee Binstock  00:21:08  be beware of the the patterns. Christine Macdonald  00:21:10  Well, interesting question because I thought just leaving the island was enough. And I thought, oh, I'm such a rock. I could walk away from the Coke. I could walk away from the ecstasy and all those other things I was doing, and I was really sn about it to be honest with you I thought and they rehab. I'm good. I honestly did not think I was an addict until in my thirties, I had a relapse with prescription drugs, and that's a whole nother animal because in in an addicts mind, do you think Oh, this is from a doctor. I'm fine. And, of course, that doesn't... That's never the case. But Lorilee Binstock  00:21:44  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:21:49  realizing that I was an attic, took be relaxing and being in a detox word for a week. And and really understanding after going to meetings and things like, oh, yeah. So my party self in my twenties never left. I just changed the scenery. Lorilee Binstock  00:22:05  Yep. Christine Macdonald  00:22:05  So getting real with yourself is not for the faint of heart. Right? You have to take responsibility for your choices, and Yeah. Once I... Once I realized that the two were not so different that my party self just manifested in other ways, and then I was able to do the do the work with therapy. Lorilee Binstock  00:22:28  Well so in that time, when you left this adult entertainment world, and you were finding yourself, what was happening with yourself worth? Did it make? Did it did you want to go back to the stripping? How did you manage dealing with that that feeling of finding yourself worth? And and and Christine Macdonald  00:22:53  Yeah. Lorilee Binstock  00:22:54  needing longing for that helpful. Christine Macdonald  00:22:57  Realizing that the real world wasn't gonna saves me and that the real world was actually a lot harder than I thought. How did I how did I manage for a long time? I didn't... I I still suffered low self steam and that manifested in every single choice of partner I ever dated, and I had a therapist what tell me? I had a therapist one. Lorilee Binstock  00:23:20  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:23:24  If you cut off all the heads of everyone you've ever dated, and I said, let's take a moment to just visualize that because I gotta I kinda like that. But when when this therapist said that to me, she says, they're interchangeable. Lorilee Binstock  00:23:30  Yeah Christine Macdonald  00:23:37  You you pick these stricter or upper and then complain that there's no good people out there today. It's because you don't feel like you're worthy of any one who's good for you. Like, I did not feel Like was worthy of a nice person. And also, when you grow up, and I think you can attest when you grow up with chaos, we subconsciously create chaos because that's home. Lorilee Binstock  00:24:00  Yep. Christine Macdonald  00:24:01  You know, chaos is home. We don't understand when our phone's not blowing up when we don't have any fires to put out when we're not fret Lorilee Binstock  00:24:01  Yep. Christine Macdonald  00:24:08  whether the person we're seeing is cheating on us and getting through their phone for answers, all of those things are based on low self esteem. Lorilee Binstock  00:24:16  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:24:16  And I did not realize that at the time. And so I spent the better part of my thirties and forties after I left the stage. Really having to work on myself esteem. And then I finally got a clue when I was just exhausted from being heartbroken and realizing through therapy that I had more control than I thought. Like, there... It's not that there are no good people there it's just that I'm choosing the ones that are bad for me because I just didn't feel like I was worse. Anyone better. So that's Lorilee Binstock  00:24:50  Yeah. There's like there's like comfort in the same people that you you date in a way. Christine Macdonald  00:24:54  Exactly. It's a familiarity that it's it's hard to shake. It's like a trauma bond. Right? Lorilee Binstock  00:25:01  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:25:02  Yeah. Lorilee Binstock  00:25:04  Did you... So what was it? Was there something that happened because I feel I I'm dealing with this. Constantly now I'm continuously working on feeling like I'm enough. What was it? That did it for you. Was there something that made it click besides her saying you have more control? And I feel like I... I do have control, but I mean, there are days where I'm just like, am I enough, and then I question it. Christine Macdonald  00:25:33  Oh, totally. Hold, totally. It's really a hard net to crack, and it's so embedded into our our psyche because, you know, rewire those parts of our brain, I think, is a lifelong journey, I mean it's truly... It's not easy to do, but the fact that we're aware of it is a huge plus. Right? Like, we know our intellect I always say that my... You know, our brains have the intellect side and then the emotional side. So when my emotional side starts to kick in and say, oh, who's gonna read your book? You're not you're nobody. You're not famous, blah blah blah blah, and then I have the other side, the intellect that says, damn straight. Everyone's gonna read my book. This is a really great story, and it's gonna inspire people. So it's just balancing those two positive and negatives, Lorilee Binstock  00:26:15  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:26:21  but surrounding yourself with people who list you up and only wanna us to you succeed that unconditional love, your sister, your brotherhood, people that are in your corner. That's what helps lift me and realize that I'm worth it. In fact, my best best girlfriend I was... I received converter flowers from someone because of my book release, and I was falling Lorilee Binstock  00:26:48  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:26:49  because I'm not used in receiving love where there's no catch. Like, I used to always think if I get love, then what's it gonna cost me, like, it was a transactional Lorilee Binstock  00:26:54  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:26:59  thing when people truly love you, they don't want anything from you. They just love you who you are. And I text my best girlfriend, and I said, I'm really having a hard time believing I'm worth this. And she said, you remember that movie moons with share? Lorilee Binstock  00:27:13  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:27:16  She's she said, what that out of it. She goes you are worth it step out of it. So surrounding yourself with people that truly truly only want the best for you. They don't have any motives. There's nothing in it for them. I think that's huge. I think that really helps with your self esteem. Lorilee Binstock  00:27:37  It really sounds like your mom was kind of that person. Christine Macdonald  00:27:43  She was great. She had her own missteps, and I... And I do explain that in the book there are many things that, you know, she wishes she and, of course, I do too. She didn't do or could have done better but she's been my support system through this book. Even though there's a part of her, of course, she's a mom. She doesn't want the world to know that her baby made all these missteps and choices. But in the end, she's... She's been great. Yeah. She's very worried about this book, but I told her I said, look, anyone who reads the book is gonna know Lorilee Binstock  00:28:17  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:28:18  that you have your home messed missteps because you were raised by someone who was not healthy. So you know, the cycle. It's a cycle. Right? Lorilee Binstock  00:28:25  Right. It's the cycle. Exactly. Christine Macdonald  00:28:27  Yeah. Lorilee Binstock  00:28:29  Well, looking back at the entertainment industry now, what are your... What are your personal thoughts? And it sounds like when... When that nineteen year old girl walked through, you're... You you had a lot that you wanted to say to this person. Christine Macdonald  00:28:45  Yeah. Yeah. For sure. It's interesting because I... Since I... Been promoting self promoting this book. I got on Tick talk, and I had no idea what to expect. You know, I'm a Gen x or I'm just like, I didn't even know how to do this whole business, but I'm gonna try Lorilee Binstock  00:29:01  Yeah Christine Macdonald  00:29:02  because, you know, social media is basically the best advertised you can do. And if you can gain a healthy following, it's a great way to get your message out. Right? So I am on talk, and most of my followers Lorilee Binstock  00:29:11  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:29:15  are current spicy dancers, And they are Absolutely amazing. Each and every one of them has a story, and I don't know if you've ever seen Orange just black. Lorilee Binstock  00:29:26  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:29:27  But you know how the template of that story is, you really get to know the backstory of every inmates. And then you form an empathy that you didn't realize you could have for someone who is in prison Lorilee Binstock  00:29:41  Right. Christine Macdonald  00:29:42  because were against them and whatever whatever resources they had to do, which, of course, isn't to say they shouldn't be imprisoned, but you wanna have an idea of their why and every single girl onstage stage, whether you're on stage or in a pen country, there's a reason Lorilee Binstock  00:29:55  Right. Christine Macdonald  00:30:01  and they're not necessarily bad people. So I am finding myself I feel like they're aunts or their house mom. Lorilee Binstock  00:30:09  Yeah Christine Macdonald  00:30:09  And a lot of them come to me and say you give me inspiration that there is life after the pull. Because it's a young woman's game. And like I said, I was almost thirty, and I was freaking out that I was gonna be a senior citizen on the pool. So I never judge them. I support them. And I just... If they asked my advice because I never wanna give it unsolicited. I just say try and save some of your money and hold on to your yourself love and your power because it is a very seductive part in the pun industry, or you can get really wrapped up in the drugs so you can get wrapped up in the money, and then, of course, the next thing, you know, you're thirty. Lorilee Binstock  00:30:43  Mhmm. And there you are. Christine Macdonald  00:30:53  And there you are. Lorilee Binstock  00:30:56  Is there would you say because I think a lot of that has to do with self love and self worth. And do you think people who go into... Do you think there are people who go into the adult entertainment world who are already strong, and their self love and their self worth. Christine Macdonald  00:31:15  I do. I do. And I've worked with women that had their... Can I swear? Lorilee Binstock  00:31:20  Of course, Go for it. Christine Macdonald  00:31:21  Okay. I've work... I've worked with women who had their shit together. Like, they were college students. They were moms during the day, and they were trying to supplement. You know, that trying to feed their child, not all of the women that are, you know, choose the sex industry the sex work industry, whether it's, spicy dancing or now is all virtual. Right? They have there's only fans. There's Lorilee Binstock  00:31:47  Oh, yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:31:48  there's sex work in the in the literal sense, which I I never crossed over to do, but I have many friends that did. All of those things you're not necessarily broken. Everybody has their own reason, Lorilee Binstock  00:32:02  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:32:02  but I do find in my experience that I have come across women that did not think highly of themselves. But it's death it's very important to me that I I want people to know that I do not put a blanket statement on anyone who chooses that industry that they're all broken. You know? But, yeah, it's it it it is a theme Lorilee Binstock  00:32:21  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:32:25  it is a theme as with maybe other. You know, if you're in the modeling industry or anything like that, I can only imagine how toxic that would be as well. Lorilee Binstock  00:32:33  Right. Christine Macdonald  00:32:33  Especially in the in the day of filters. Right? And all of these... You don't know what's real. And then these these young women go on to or or whatever. And they think, oh, my life, they they compare themselves to these unrealistic expectations. Right. Lorilee Binstock  00:32:51  Mhmm. Yeah. You know what I think about, you know, I was a young journalist at a young talent, really, you know, a television station with a bunch of young young people. And, you know, to want to be on Tv. I mean, I feel like it's it's definitely not a glamorous job may seem like it, but definitely is not. But you know, when I looked all around me, there... You know, there are people who are broken. I feel like... I mean, I'm that's like you said, I'm not saying everyone in. But they're they're they're trying to find their voice. And then I feel like that was kind of me. Like, people who had... Were we're not listened to. They'd got a job, so that people will listen to them Right? And I feel like I was... I was also that person as well. So I go, I tried to find my voice working in this business, but you know, obviously, that's that's not what's going to fix it. Right? You have to look within yourself Christine Macdonald  00:33:22  Mhmm. Mhmm. Lorilee Binstock  00:33:46  to be able to figure out why do I need this? What was I mis sing as a child Christine Macdonald  00:33:49  Yeah. Mhmm. Lorilee Binstock  00:33:52  in order for me to pursue this this career, this lifestyle, I think figuring out everyone's why, I think it's is important. You know, I feel like if we understood everyone's why there wouldn't be so much judgment. Christine Macdonald  00:34:04  You know, Hundred percent. Hundred percent. Wouldn't it be great if everyone was, like, you have mandatory therapy from age twenty. Lorilee Binstock  00:34:16  Maybe younger. Christine Macdonald  00:34:17  Right. Lorilee Binstock  00:34:18  Maybe it's thirteen Christine Macdonald  00:34:19  Right. Lorilee Binstock  00:34:19  when you're teenager and there's hormones going and, yes. Christine Macdonald  00:34:21  Yeah. Yeah. I know. And then and, unfortunately, there's a lot of therapists out there that they're not that great. So by finding a therapist Lorilee Binstock  00:34:29  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:34:31  that you can connect with that you have that magical chemist with is not easy. But once you find the right therapist, it really does help with that insight and Yeah. It's it's definitely an eye opener when you find out that everything's connected, Like, everything's connected. That's why I talk about in the book. I have I've had the race when I was thirteen, I had the skin disease. There's father abandonment. They're drinking in the house and all of these things the bullying, the stripping everything's linked, you know? Lorilee Binstock  00:35:03  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:35:04  And so now that I'm in my fifties, I look through, especially the process of writing the book. I look through a different lens when I'm looking at that little girl, and I think, oh, of course, you ended up a stripper. And I'm not saying that to be... Do you know, I'm saying it to be self def. Like, what chance did I have? Like, of course, I'm gonna end up a distributor. But the the thing that I want people to focus on is not the fact that I was a cliche because I'm the first to say I'm a walking cliche. You know? But it's how I got out of it Lorilee Binstock  00:35:19  Yeah Okay. Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:35:37  because I have to say the women that I have reconnected with because it's very difficult to try and find the girls that I used to work with because you can't do a Google search on candy. Right? You don't know their legal name. Show the women that I have reconnected with the the marvel of the Internet, which wasn't around back in our day, God I'm old. Lorilee Binstock  00:35:59  Yeah Christine Macdonald  00:36:00  They're... That they're lawyers. Attorneys, There there are doctors, and and this is just, you know, they own their own businesses. I have a friend that's a makeup artist in Hollywood, all of these wonderful women that have excel are it's just so nice to know that people have come out the other side and then, you know, there's other other people that are no longer with us and and all of those tragedies. But, yeah it it can be an uplifting story. It doesn't have to be a dark cloud. Lorilee Binstock  00:36:29  Right. And, yours is a very very inspiring story. Christine Macdonald  00:36:34  Thank you. Lorilee Binstock  00:36:36  Is there anything else that you would like to add? Christine Macdonald  00:36:41  Don't compare yourself. If there's any it... And if there's any advice that I would give. Now this goes for men too. Lorilee Binstock  00:36:42  Mhmm. Christine Macdonald  00:36:47  I will say, especially when you're young and impression passionately in this age of social media where the attention span of people is probably, like, two seconds. Lorilee Binstock  00:37:01  It's tech. Christine Macdonald  00:37:01  Right. Everybody's right, everybody, and I'm guilty of it as well all a sudden it's seven o'clock. And and it's midnight, I'm like, why have I been scrolling the whole time? But but the thing is it's... It's... We find ourselves Lorilee Binstock  00:37:06  Me too. Christine Macdonald  00:37:14  subconsciously comparing and I do this all the time, and I have to kinda check myself and say, no no no. Stay in your lane. And I don't remember who said this, but I'm gonna be boo and say, a quote, comparison is that beef of joy. Comparison is the thief of joy. So if you really stop Lorilee Binstock  00:37:30  Yes. Christine Macdonald  00:37:35  comparing yourself with others, focus on... On who you are, what you wanna accomplice, what your dreams are, who you are is person, and just let your dreams guide you, and you'll end up okay. I think you'll be alright. And no you're worth is not predicated on what anybody else thinks of you. That took a long time for me. To understand. Lorilee Binstock  00:37:59  Yeah. I think I think finding self worth without, you know, with it's it's a it's a difficult Christine Macdonald  00:37:59  You know? Lorilee Binstock  00:38:04  thing to do. It's... I mean, it's taken me years and I'm still... I I I struggle, but I'm light years away from who I was, you know, Christine Macdonald  00:38:13  Yeah. Lorilee Binstock  00:38:14  up four years ago. Christine Macdonald  00:38:16  Mhmm. Lorilee Binstock  00:38:18  But, yeah, It's just finding it within yourself. And in that and Christine Macdonald  00:38:20  Yeah. And that's... Yeah. Yeah. It's all about the rewire. Right? You gotta rewire that brain because we were... We were taught as children that we, you know, we didn't matter. We were invincible Lorilee Binstock  00:38:26  yep. Christine Macdonald  00:38:33  I was called work. Lorilee Binstock  00:38:33  You're just a kid. Christine Macdonald  00:38:35  Exactly. Go in the other room, watch Tv. I was told I was worthless. Almost every day. And so it's very difficult to rewire those voices, but once you can get control of that, you know, you're you're good. You're golden. Just say sit in your kid truth, stand in your power, and don't compare yourself. Lorilee Binstock  00:38:54  Don't compare yourself that I think that that's key. That's key right there. Christine Macdonald  00:38:58  Mhmm. And being a good human being. Be a good person. You know? Lorilee Binstock  00:39:02  Yeah. Christine Macdonald  00:39:03  Yeah. Lorilee Binstock  00:39:03  Yes. A hundred percent. Thank you so much. Christine, I really appreciate you joining me today. Christine Macdonald  00:39:10  Oh, thank you. This is fun. Lorilee Binstock  00:39:12  I'm glad. I'm glad. Well, that one's Christine Mcdonald's author of the Memoir face value from Stripper Pull to bearing my soul. For more information on Christine, click on that for scrolling fortune cookie right there in the middle of your screen, that will actually take you to her book. Also, Mark issue of authentic insider now Christine has contributed to that issue, and check out authentic take thrive dot com. That's trauma survivor thrive dot com. You can find authentic insider there and past issues as well as episodes of this podcast. If you haven't already, please subscribe to my email list to get authentic insider magazine in your inbox monthly. Thank you so much for joining me live today. Show like next week, March fifteenth, when I speak with founder of the psychedelic Medicine coalition, Melissa, we will be discussing how psychedelics helped her heel from postpartum part depression and how that led her to create the Psychedelic menacing coalition. You've been listening to a trauma survivor driver's podcast on Fireside, I'm Lorilee Binstock thanks again for being a part of the conversation. Take care.

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Y'all know I've relinquished the ownership reigns of Head/Heart Therapy to the brilliant Rayell Grayson LCPC, CADC. If not, I urge you to check out our fantastic conversation. Now, it's time to welcome the rest of Head/Heart's leadership team: Clinical Manager Anna Goldberger, Director of Operations Benji Marton, and Clinical Director Joanna Taubeneck.  Tune in to an excellent introduction to anti-capitalist, liberation-focused strategies for professional development in any role or industry. The Head/Heart team has been there, done that, and is still committed to doing the work. Active anti-racism? Compassionate accountability? Meaningful self-care? Tick! Tick! Tick!  GUEST BIOS Anna Goldberger, LCSW (she/her), is a licensed clinical social worker and Clinical Manager at Head/Heart Therapy. Before becoming a social worker, she worked as a community organizer. Because of this experience, she recognizes the need for emotional, spiritual, and psychological healing among communities and individuals fighting for justice. She brings this recognition and a joy for holding compassionate healing space for all who need it into her therapeutic relationships. Benji Marton, LCSW (he/him), is a licensed clinical social worker and Director of Operations at Head/Heart Therapy. Benji believes therapy supports the telling of your story from a non-judgmental and curious lens. You, and only you, are the expert in your story. He sees therapy as a journey in which therapist and client experience together through a non-hierarchical relationship that focuses on empowerment. Benji is the guide, but ultimately, the journey is yours. Joanna Taubeneck, LCPC, R-DMT, GL-CMA, E-RYT (she/her) is a licensed clinical professional counselor, registered dance/movement therapist, certified movement analyst, and experienced registered yoga teacher. She's also the Clinical Director at Head/Heart Therapy. As a former dancer, Joanna is passionate about movement and acknowledges that the body holds deep, intuitive wisdom and also the imprints of our many life experiences. The body remembers, on a physiological level—oftentimes much more fully than does the brain—moments of calm and also moments of trauma.  Let's be friends! You can find me in the following places… Website: www.headheartbiztherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartBizTherapy/ Instagram:  @headheartbiztherapy

An in-depth look at ancient Greek practices for profound, lasting healing• Explores hidden soul-healing practices including dream incubation and interpretation as well as sacred pilgrimage• Examines how dreams, visions, and other non-normative events reveal the conditions needed to restore the soul and facilitate healing• Includes successful healing techniques, practices, and case studies to reveal how healings are achieved with these methodsThe modern practice of medicine and psychology grew out of the ancient Greek healing tradition, said to be founded by Asklepios, god of healing and dreams. For two thousand years the system spread all over the Mediterranean world and planted the roots of Western medicine and psychology by offering ritual and holistic practices that recognized that healing begins at the soul level. Yet, since that time, the spiritually based practices were cast aside, leaving behind only the scientific medical techniques that dominate health care today.Resurrecting and restoring the sacred, mythological, and cultural origins of medicine and psychotherapy, Edward Tick, Ph.D., explores the soul-healing practices missing in our contemporary health systems. He looks at the dream incubation tradition of Asklepios, sacred theater of Dionysos, oracle gifting of Apollo, special practices of warriors, and their roots in Neolithic shamanism and indigenous traditions. Demonstrating the ritual use of dreams, visions, oracles, synchronicities, and pilgrimage for healing and connecting to the transpersonal and divine, he explains how dream incubation is a technique in which you plant a seed for a specific healing or growth goal.Using both ancient wisdom and modern depth psychology alongside stories of healings from his more than 25 years of guiding Vietnam veterans on Greek pilgrimages, Tick explores how we all can use ancient healing philosophies and practices to achieve holistic healing today. He examines the interaction between mind and body (psyche and soma) and between physical illness and the soul to heal PTSD and trauma. He explains the art of making accurate and holistic interpretations of signs, symbols, and symptoms to determine what they reveal about the soul. Showing how dreams and other transpersonal experiences are essential components of soul medicine, the author reveals how restoration of the soul facilitates true healing.Edward Tick, Ph.D., is a transformational psychotherapist, international pilgrimage guide, educator, author, and poet. A specialist in archetypal psychotherapy and the healing of violent trauma, he is the author of four nonfiction books, including The Practice of Dream Healing and War and the Soul. He lives in central Massachusetts.

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Audio file  RIPMEDICALDEBTDRAGSHOW.mp3    Transcript  Good morning, comrades. You're listening to I'm just said WMNF like that is the community radio station. When I grew up in Saint Petersburg, like Tampa Bay, it was like in NPR affiliate and everything. But this is not WMNF. This is WHIV. 102.3 low Power FM I'm a little throwed right now. This is Robert of good morning. Comrade Jeff has made his way back to fight for labor rights in Virginia, right? I'm a little throwed because we're not recording in the studio. This is not live, so please hold all calls. But this is in the home studio. And I'm with my lovely wife Aaron, who is a in and out, you know, guest. Of the podcast also host guest licensed mental health profession. And she's here. So it's like having your very own doctor Katz.  I'm also in the world's squeakiest chair, so sorry, everybody.  It's very squeaked out.  And also I have really bad vocal fry. So your.  Vocal fry is fine. You it's authoritative.  No, apparently no amount.  How do you figure that?  Because I've I've spoken to Ben.  That men are trash like you've told me this. On various occasions. So why are we concerned of what men think?  Because your listeners, you're. Mostly men. I'm.  Assuming, I mean they are when I run the when I run the, I'm trash I'm I'm trash.  You guys aren't. Trash, though, so that's so don't complain about my. Local fry, so we'll be fine. We're all good.  No, there is definitely a trash can that lives inside of me. So and also I just had to grab my keyboard from because we have our cat Ozzie, who is chilling out, but he loves to like lay on the keyboard and then it's just like a random like, what's going to happen when he does it. Usually he screws up video games. He's trying to screw up recording of a podcast right now, but he's such a.  Our other at Henry likes to attack my laptop when I'm using it, especially when I'm on a training or a conference call and she likes to send fund messages to the other participants.  Good boy. That's so awesome.  And then I get a bunch of messages back. I think your cat sent me a message. And it's like, yes.  Yeah. What did it say?  No, mostly it was like a lot. Of days and ages.  Ohh, a sassy a sketch lot of case.  No, that's where she. That's where she was standing.  Lot of case sassy, sassy cats, sassy cats.  JKL drive.  What's going on, Aaron? Somebody tried to steal our cat? I found out.  I guess that's going on OK.  Speaking of cats. So I come home and like both of our neighbors, our neighbor from up the block and and our neighbor next door is like there was a guy cause we have a, you know, our we have cats who have three cats and they're like indoor outdoor cats and.  And before you all come for us, we tried to make them be indoor cats. And these cats have figured out how to escape from the house. Robert came into our room, just not 15 minutes ago and stated that our cat Annie had we took away her normal. Escape route. She normally jumps on top of Roberts Arcade cabinet and then into the cabinet above our closet, and then shimmies up the air conditioning vent. Because, you know, she really wants to get outside.  To the attic.  But we moved to the video Gamer Cabinet video cabinet, anybody?  Over the age of.  Well, so we move that. So she just scaled the wall.  Yeah, she just was like Spiderman and just dug 1 claw into another and just vertically straight vertically scale. I think she looked back at me like she surprised herself like she's plotting it. She's like, I don't know. But I'm gonna give it. We can give. It a A you know, a world. And then she was just up in the crawl space, looking down at me like. Man, I did it.  Like there's literal cat claw. Like in the wall.  I'm looking at.  So, yeah. So we did really try to make these cats stay indoors. They just refused.  But yeah, so both our neighbors are like, hey, we have a cat Annie who, like, runs wild and free.  So anyway.  And like she just, you know, hangs out with everybody. She comes with us when we walk our dog, she walks it. She walks with us around the block. She just, you know, we'll get pets from everybody. Well, apparently there was some, like, hipster. Dude, they they described him as a tall white guy. Thin, with short shorts on cowboy cowboy boots and a tank top. And I'm like this man came straight out of the Bywater to try to steal my cat. They said he just he like and he came over to him for some pets. He picked up Annie and just started walking down the street and Annie was like, screaming bloody murder, like trying to get away and our neighbor. That came out like what's going on and was like, you put that cat down right now like, because that's not your cat. That's the blocks cat.  She is truly the blocks cat. I get sad about it sometimes cuz I did want her to be my cat. Which is why I adopted her. That you know the block needed her and she showed up, you know? She answered the call.  It's insane. How's how's work going for you?  Works good. We're finally staffed properly because they decided to give us. All of. A praise so.  That's great. Yay.  Yeah, that's crazy. You know, you get to like, you give people more money, they're more willing to.  They want to do things.  Work for you? But yeah, I can't really talk about my work just because HIPAA, but yeah. People are still struggling.  It's pretty bad out there.  Yeah, it's not. As bad as it could be, but it's.  Did you see? I guess we'll just do like. We'll we'll eat our we'll take our eat our vegetables first before uhm. Our dessert, did you see in Tennessee, the governor has the Governor of Tennessee has signed a bill that's going to. Make drag shows illegal.  Which I truly don't understand because Nashville is The Bachelorette capital of the world. From what I understand, and I don't understand how you can have a Bachelorette party without a drag brush.  Yeah, I mean, I can't go back to Nashville now, but yeah, he's a trash bag for sure. But did you see on top of that, on top of all that pictures were dug up of him in high school at a powder puff football game?  So funny and it's sad, but funny.  So he is. He is in a dress. And literally like the reporter that confronted him with, it was like. Like it must be like 4 Chan news.com cause he literally said is this you this you? What do you got to say about this? And he was just like, oh, that was in good fun.  Yeah, every drag brunch I've ever been to has been in good fun too, so I don't understand drag show.  I know.  I shouldn't just keep saying drag brunch. I'm just really basic.  You just you just gotta have eggs with your.  So that's mostly when I see drag.  You gotta have eggs with your drag show.  I'm either watching drag wrestling or I'm on drag brunch. There's truly no in between for me.  And dry wrestling about two weeks ago, that was. Pretty good that. Was great. It was pretty nice.  It was fantastic. But this is, you know, I not to be talked kind of light hearted about something so terrible. But you know. My mom has. Sometimes has asked me, you know, why I'm. I'm kind of down frequently and I don't really know how to explain to her that I have a really sick feeling in my stomach that. You know how similar the times are to the Weimar Republic and what came after the Weimar Republic is not something that. I particularly want to live through. Or have ever have happened. Again, again, again.  Yeah, I'm not looking forward. To the the reboot of cabaret. Like, that's not a thing I want. To watch.  And ironically, they probably wouldn't allow.  Well, that's the whole point. That's the point of the original one, is it not?  I've never seen it. I'm going to. Be honest with you.  Honestly, I've never seen it either, but the premise makes me mad because I'm like, if you people were in the street instead of like, come to the cab or maybe. Y'all could have done something about this.  We might be being really unduly harsh on characters of cabaret.  Probably more likely.  Please let us know but. I you know, the targeting of trans people and not that drag people drag Queens and kings are trans all the time, you know, but just targeting the because you actually look at the law, it does ban trans people from performing anything. Because it's specific to, I think it says the language is something like performing in the cultural makeup, including dress accessories. You know, style all of that of the a person who's the opposite of the gender you were assigned at birth. So essentially it's not drag, it's it's trans people doing anything in front of other people ever. And that's really scary. That is really scary. You know, it's it's the cliche. At this point, but the reason the reason? It gets said so much is because it's true. It's, you know, they. Came for the communists and and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. They came for the Jews. I didn't speak up. I wasn't a Jew. They came for the Catholics. I I am Catholic. But you know what I'm talking about. And it's just. I just. I don't really. Know what to do with my feelings about it. To be honest. Because, because again, like it's so stupid. Like it's so stupid that you it's almost as if you don't want to take it seriously because they're just so outlandish and buffoonish. But, you know, even, and that's part of that's part of the poison of it. Is that they are so goofy and so hypocritical and so out of control that it almost becomes not real, which I think is something that happened a lot during the Trump administration. So, you know, I don't, I don't know what to do.  So just to get. To get the full scope of this, I'll read this is from cnn.com because you you're saying how bands, all performances and I can't remember. I I'm sure I've read this already, but I just can't remember this specifics. It's like my brain wanted to block them out. So let's see CNN politics by Shawna Mizzell March 2nd. 2023 Tennessee becomes first state in 20, 2020 to restrict drag performances. Republican Governor Bill Lee signed into law Thursday afternoon that will restrict public drug show performances in Tennessee, making his state the first to do so this year. The state Senate passed the bill earlier Thursday, along with party along party lines, to admit adult cabaret performances on public. Again, my cat just moved my mouse public property so as to shield them from the view of children threatening violators with a misdemeanor and repeat offenders with a felony. The bill, which the Tennessee House passed last week, defines an adult cabaret performance as a performance that features topless dancers, go go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers. Male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a what is that word? It's not.  Period periods.  That is my new SAT word.  It means up period means basically blue. Like it means it means like you know, I don't know what upsetted he is, but I can't say what asity is.    But I know when I see period.  You all right? That's a wild word. Republicans hold supermajorities in both the House and the Senate. The law will go into effect on July 1st, 2023. Tennessee measure is the first of nearly a dozen such bills presently working their way through the GOP LED state legislatures. Republican state the performances expose children to sexual themes and imagery that are inappropriate, a claim rejected by advocates who say the proposed measures are discriminatory against the LGBT. New community and could violate First Amendment laws. Yeah, I wonder. Yeah, like this feels like something. The ACL, this. This feels like an ACLU slam dunk, but we'll see. But it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter if it gets. Repealed or not? There's already a chilling effect. That's the point. The cruelty is the point not to actually protect children from anything. See as. Blah blah blah blah blah as transgender issues and drag culture are increasingly becoming more mainstream. Such shows, which often feature men dressing as women and exaggerated makeup while singing or entertaining a crowd. Though some shows feature body or content, have occasionally been the target of attacks, and LGBTQ advocates say the bills under consideration add to a heightened state of alarm for the community. Like I said, it's the chilling effect they want. It's the chilling effect. They're going to get. Republicans state Senator Jack Johnson. Who sponsored the Tennessee legislation, told CNN on Thursday that the bill was not meant to target drag performances or transgender. People except you just literally spelled out in the language of the bill what a drag show is. That's that's wild that that is. That is 1987, George.  Orwen. Well, that's how they. Get around the ohh that was all in good fun because of course the. High school. Actually, I should even say, of course, but theoretically, a high school skit is probably not going to have a lot of, like sexual nature. And like a lot of body this, but why am I like I there was a guy. In my high school. He used to show us all his Beatus like frequently. Yeah, this was before me too, but.  And then I fell in love.  Then I reflected on it as an adult and I was like, why didn't any of? The teachers stop that.  Ohh it was like a known. Thing. Ohh yeah.  Yeah, it was a theater thing.  Oh God.  perient shows and it's like, OK. Yeah, maybe they're not doing like old school vaudeville acts, but you know. What are they going to call body? What are they going to call period. I wish they hadn't written that word.  That's that's a wild world, yeah.  That's a wild word, but it's it's like, OK, so if you have a trans comic and they're talking about their dating life and they're talking about their sex life, is that going to be considered something that's too much that's, you know, afoul of the law? You know, it's there's a law. If you are a CIS woman who likes to dress. More masculine and you're in a show. Are they going to consider that to be you are dressing in the some a clothing of a gender other than your assigned birth? You know it's it's just, you know, and and we're we should be used to these things by now because I mean it's it's. I'm not gonna say it started with Trump because it obviously didn't, but it, you know, the last four years they've gotten especially ridiculous with their their language and their and their long. But yeah, it's it's, it is wild.  Our dog's. Being very bad right now. OK. So our little dog is being super bad. All our animals like these animals are smarter than they lead on because they just like, oh, are you trying to do something or are you trying to do a thing that, like, requires some kind of like concentration and quiet? So now it's time for me to get all my big feelings.  Getting rowdy, we're getting rowdy.  They're the worst.  And then Henry just, I don't know. Is this a cat thing? They every time they know they're being bad. And and you start to say. Stop doing that. They stop and start grooming. Like who? Me couldn't possibly be.  Oh my God this. This little cat. I love, I love them, but they are. Awful real bad. They're real bad. Love them, but they're real bad. So yeah, we're talking about how. The United States is kind of becoming a hellscape. Drag is like you cannot be a assigned male at birth and wear a a dress and sing a song in the state of Tennessee anymore. And like I said, the the the really interesting bit is that. Keep reading from the CNN article ahead of the bill signing. Lee the governor faced accusations of hypocrisy after an unidentified Reddit user posted a photo from 1977 high school. His 1977 high school yearbook, which purports to show the future governor dressed in women's clothing and a wig. Alongside female students dressed in men's suits, we had this when I was in high school because I'm old enough and.  No, everybody's high school, everybody.  Ohh y'all had that too. It's power, power, power, whatever.  Everybody's high school. Has the. Oh, no, I was. Just gonna say dude dressed and dressed.  Oh, it's like. Oh, I was gonna say the girls played football and then the guys were cheerleaders or whatever. That's why I assume I saw this picture. It's it. But like that's why I assumed it's from. But no, he like, like I said earlier, he responded to that. Oh, that was that's. But that's different though. Just like you know, normal scumbag behavior. But like you said, you don't know what to do and then I have to repeat what I've said. I've said many a time on this on this show is that you know, we have to embrace the struggle. The struggle is going to go on after we're dead. But take heart, knowing that when they start doing stuff like this. What they have been doing, they're losing. They're like the reactionaries are losing. This is the safest time in human history. A new world? A new.  I just feel like. They've said that in the Vimar Republic too.  World is struggling to be born. No, I don't think so. No, I don't. I know. I I've watched them. To be honest, I've watched documentaries about the Vimar Republic and people were way. I know what you're saying and I I think it's a good analogy, but people were way more apathetic because they had just come off of World War One where Germany took a Big L.  I forgot that and that was. Yeah, that. Was OK. Fair so yeah. OK, that's something. It's not as bad as the vimar public yet, OK?  No, it's not. It's not. But like these are. These are definitely things to be aware of. So when I say like we do live in the safest time in human history, that doesn't mean like people are not gonna. There's not stochastic terrorism. People aren't going to be killed and hurt by these reactionaries, and people's lives aren't going to be ruined. But. And you take a step back and you look at, you know, the macro picture of time. We are winning. We will win. Culture never locks in the conservative the idea of a conservative movement is the idea on its face is dead on arrival because you cannot conserve culture. Culture will change. It's going to change the things that conservatives enjoy now were the, you know. 100 years ago liberal positions and we keep backing them into more and more. Well, we can't come right out and hate. You know queer people, so we've got to do this indie. Around again and. And make up lies about how drag they're all groomers and how drag story hour is is grooming your children.  And let's not get it twisted. This is not specifically, this is obviously about LGBTQ people and and targeting them, but it is not just about targeting LGBTQ people. They're targeting the idea of satirizing a a social norm, a gender, you know, a gender norm is a social construct. And drag is, you know its whole purpose is to satirize, you know, the expression of that social construct. And so. The idea that we're banning that it's like, OK, well, what other social constructs are we not going to be able to talk about? And we're not gonna be able to laugh about and right next. And that's, you know, I like to think anybody listening to this show, you know, cares about the fact that they're targeting LGBTQ people anyway. But I do think that there's a lot of people. Who would be apathetic to the idea of banning a drag show? Because maybe they don't go to them, they're just they don't know what's in a drag flow, but kind of if you're talking to someone like that, it's it's not about the show itself, it's about the satirization of a social norm, and it's about. Not wanting to make fun of things that are are conservative, I mean, you know, you know, typical gender norms are, you know, the gender by an area that's a very conservative idea. And so it's it's about not moving forward with with changing societal ideas and expectations, you know. It's it's they want to go back to the 50s with all of the nonsense and terribleness. And I think that message could possibly, you know, sway some people who maybe are a little bit more apathetic. To drag just because they don't understand.  Not even. Yeah, I wouldn't even say sway them. I would say the apathy is kind of the, you know, in a place like Tennessee, like, let's be real. Like outside of Nashville and maybe Memphis, people are going to be like, say what? Well, that doesn't affect me and I don't care. So I don't. I don't. It sounds great to me. UM. But they're like, just to hammer home the point. There's definitely like two ways to look at it. Like look at this. The one way is when you talk about, you know, mainstream culture that. Western Society is moving backwards. Just in our lifetimes, we've had these are mainstream things. These aren't even. These aren't even. Like fringe things, we've had movies like too Wong Foo. Thanks for everything. RuPaul's Drag Race is like a mainstream thing.  Let's talk about Mrs. Doubtfire's track.  It's a. It's a man in a dress. Right, I know, but. Yeah, it's a crazy. Like, I'm not talking about, like, we're gonna. We're gonna have some kind of a college. You know, we're not going to sit here and and and sit in a classroom and tear Mrs. Doubtfire apart. It's a stupid movie, but the point is it was a movie. People took their kids to see. My parents took me to see and it was about a man. Wearing a dress. Not even doing drag actually like pretending to be a woman for like the worst reasons.  Literally a a man. Wearing a dress. Who is using? Pretending to be a woman to target and harass a woman which is like everything that they're worried about happening now and yet. And yet it was just good old fun.  So you can look at that as Western, as Western culture regressing. I'm choosing and this is from the cynical guy like I am not that glass. Half full guy. I'm the cynical guy for sure, but I look at this as. This is the best they have, like they are drowning in a sea of acceptance and change and they are grasping for any land they can. And this is the best they've come up with. In the long arc of history. This is not. This is gonna look at. This is gonna not even the long. Five years from now, this is going to be on some kind of CNN. Remember the the twenty 20s. And everybody's gonna go, that was.  Honestly, the the fact that most older Republican men know what a drag. Show is at. This point means that drag has truly come into the mainstream.  Thank you.  We actually talking. About this, this weekend is one of our favorite documentaries that we watched when we just started dating was small town gay bar and it was about. A bar in a small southern town that was very tucked away kind of word of mouth. And it was where people in the queer community could congregate. And it was it was, you know, one of the only places where they could. Other queer people, and where they could openly be themselves, and it was a really great documentary, definitely recommend it. But you know, even in smaller towns there is more, you know. People know of a gay person. Now you know back, back when that was filmed, people wouldn't be, wouldn't feel ever able to come out to their families. And while there's still a lot. Of people who don't. Feel able to do that to come out to their families. You know, there are still a lot of people who do, even in conservative town. So we really have moved very far. I really have to keep reminding myself of that just because it is very easy to get down and not to say that you know you're not allowed to have negative feelings about what's going on and not allowed to be sad and grieve. But I know for me if if I start feeling so negatively, it starts to feel like there's nothing I can do, so why try? And so it is very important to to acknowledge our progress and to acknowledge all of the people who made that progress happen and all of the people who are still battling apathy in order to make progress happen now and all. The people all the. Wonderful humans in Tennessee who I know are going to push back on this. Whether it's not going to be the majority of the state. Unfortunately, but I know that there are going to. Be some very fierce, fierce defenders of the queer community, both the community themselves and allies. And honestly, this is a meme I just saw. I'm like, I really am getting old. I go on Facebook, just look at memes now. Like but it said if you if you harass my transgendered buddies my I'm going to start identifying as a problem spicy. Is that the? Only good. I identify joke. Identify as joke.  It's pretty good.  And then there was another one. It was like, hey, if you like you harm the queer community, my pronouns are gonna be your pronouns are gonna be, was, and were. I'm terrible at. I like explaining memes into a podcast. This is truly the most millennial I've ever been in my life.  All right. It's all right, Mama.  But but I just. Yeah, I think humor is appropriate. I think. Do whatever you need to do to feel. To feel the hope that you need to keep moving on in this fight because it is like this is truly scary stuff, and the fact that it's being enacted by the world's. Stupid people is like it's not making me feel good, just the. State of democracy, you.  Yeah, like and again, just realize that you're we are all fighting battles that we've already won. But the battle still has to be fought. Like we have to fight, we have to. Fight these people and tooth and nail. To make sure as. Few people are hurt. By rack, Sherry politics is possible, but realize it's over. Like we we we've already won.  Like culturally, it's over. You know, does this state agree? So we're not fighting the culture anymore. We're we're fighting the state, we're fighting people who?  These conversations I really do. And to put my, you know, kind of conspiratorial hair on these conversations have already been had obviously to put bills like this forward in Republican think tanks in circles because they know they they know it's over. So the only the only hope is is to try to. Is to try to take the minority that they do have and Lord over the majority of what people want through legislation like this. That's that's all they have. That's all they have left. That's why. That's why the Republican Party has to gerrymander districts cause they can't win.  Well, yeah, see, The thing is like the thing. Is that they are gerrymandering, though, so it's we can't just say they, oh, they're not. They're not winning because they have to do XYZ, but it's like OK, they have done XYZ so they could continue to win.  I know. I guess what I'm saying is they're doing that because. They're losing, no.  I understand that, but it's we can't use that as a.    I don't know. That we should use that as a metric just because it's easy to get complacent and, you know, we're looking at a potential Trump de Santis 2024. So I'm not, I'm not like.  Trump's gonna Trump's gonna win. That I don't even think.  You know, they're just they're just. Like they're just literally calling each other pedophiles, and they both like, well, OK, allegedly.  I don't even think this. I don't even think the Saints. I don't even think the. Saints is going to declare.  Allegedly, Trump is a pedophile.  Allegedly. Allegedly.  I'm I'm I. Don't know. I don't know anything about DeSantis, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was a pedophile.  I don't even think De Santis is going. To declare you.  Don't think so.  Did you did you read the other day? So he had De Santis had a rally thing and some? I don't know. In some county, in Florida, and people showed up in Trump gear and he had them physically removed.  Oh, I love that for everybody.  So, uh, what? Like it's over. Like that's it, because now a million people are going to come. To every one of his things.  That is true.  And it's going to look awful.  That is true. So even better, we are looking at.  A Trump, Trump, Trump, Biden.  From Tom Cotton and then Trump is going to mysteriously have a heart attack while eating his seventh Big Mac of the day.  Oh, God, that's just.  And we're going to have a Tom Cotton presidency. So love that for us. Anyway, I'm just a ball of sunshine. I just sometimes I think that I have a pretty balanced about my views of the world and that I'm like, I feel like I'm pretty realistic about things. And then I'll say something so wildly dark and pessimistic that I'm, like, maybe being in crisis domestic violence. And working out of jail for the last eight years has actually. Maybe colored my views on the world more than I anticipated.  Yeah, that'll do it. No, that that will definitely do it. That'll that's that's what the kids call a big downer.  That's a downer.  It's a big Debbie downer.  Yeah, it's an. L It's an L.  Yeah, you're just eating elves.  Eating elves.  Eating them.  Like BFR, that's trauma.  I've never heard that before.  Oh, I can't because it's going. To be it's B. Asleep for real? OK, it's my new favorite Gen.  I just got on period I period a like last week.  I don't know if that's still doing that, but that. Is really funny.  I just got on him. Yeah. So I don't know. I'm old. I'm. I'm not old. I think I'm the oldest person on TikTok.  I can't can't judge. No, there's some much older men and.  It was like.  They have all messaged me. Yeah, I get messages from people named Sugar Daddy M12. So how I don't.  Know on TikTok.  Tick tock.  How you don't even this is the first I've. Heard of this? You even?  Why don't you ask China? I don't know.  You don't even have like content.  No, I do. I do have a couple of things. I've been tagged in. Because my friend, my high school friend likes to make tick tocks when we get together in the summer.    So I have like 3 tick tocks I'm tagged in, they have like 5 views apiece. Apparently one of those 5 views was Sugar Daddy Mike. And he liked what he saw. And he would like to support my lifestyle.  I was gonna say, what are they talking about in the PG13 version?  They said you're so beautiful. I would like to get to know. You yeah. And they usually put like a dollar sign.  It ain't trickin if you got it.  They don't got it so. That's that's the. Thing, that's the thing. There's, like, established routes to go. If you want an actual sugar daddy or sugar baby. And it's not TikTok, but certainly not.  My God. What is doing? What is going on?  Cause like I'm not above letting a generous older gentleman fund my lifestyle, but that gentleman is not going to.  Right.  Find me via TikTok.  That's rough. This is for this is. Ooh, you learn something new every day. Good morning, comrade.  So if you thought my voice was hot. The rest of you is hot. Too hot enough that.  Yeah, I I would agree.  No, it's probably a Nigerian scammer.  That's like a reverse scam? How does that work?  Because they'll say.  I want to send you this is because this is another message I've gotten. They want to send you a check for $500.00 for you to go get your nails done and a massage. And then. But they have to do it via. Vanilla card.  Yeah, of course.  What are?  Because that's how everybody.  Those those prepaid spending cards.  That's how everybody transfers money. In 2023.  So either you're gonna get scanned of money, or you're gonna help someone launder money. So either way, no thank you.  Dang, tick talking wild.  So it did that did check my ego a little bit. I'm not going to lie to you. I was like, oh, this isn't actually a generous older man wanting to fund my lifestyle because my beauty is just so overwhelming. It is a person who thinks I might be dumb.  You could be on, like, 90 day fiance. You could be that Lady.  Oh, I would be so good on that show.  Just be like meeting some guy from the. Dr. the. Dominican Republic and be like, oh, he totally loves me. Now for the good. We've do station ID's, we listen to one of 2.3 W HIV. FM New Orleans and we love you.  And all wars.  That was end all wars. Oh, that was the wtix thing. And we love you, which is very creepy. Yeah, if you're driving.  Hey, sorry. They're just trying to spread. A little love in the world.  I know, but drive if you're driving through the east at like. 2:00 AM and it's just listening to the oldies and then it's WTX New Orleans and we love it's. And there's just a a pile of burning tires and it just looks like. Bartertown on the.  You sound like you live in Metairie.  No, because they would never. They cause I think bartertown's cool for Mad Max beyond Thunderdome.  So that was actually a compliment.  I'm cool.  Yeah, he's like, no, that was a good thing.  I'm cool with that.  But what is your good?  OK, so I got a letter in the mail and I'm going to read it to you. And you hear.  This is the official letter.  Hear the paper crumple. It's like this is an official show. Dear Robert Johnson, we are sending you. We are sending you this letter to share the good news that on behalf of a national donor, you no longer owe the above referenced medical debts. It was almost $1200. To auctioneer. Because of our national 5013 C nonprofit, RIP Medical debt bought and abolished the debt. This active medical debt relief was provided by. Li can't Al Ed Allendale. I'm going to go with Allendale, a public. What's that?  And then I think that's beer.  Nah, it says a public benefit corporation. I mean, beer is a public benefit. I mean, what? What is that now? You got me interested. Now you got me interested. What is the ale?  What is it lol?  Yeah, let's take a look. Value based care. Else what is this? It's like a primary care.  It's. Oh God.  I don't know. It's the position LED accountable care organization. What is that, Aaron, you are.  With primary care for primary care, you know what this is going to be, someone that I'm going to have to work with at some point and I'm going to be annoyed about it more than.    Likely, but honestly, we're why are we trashing them?  I bet.  They bought.  Your medical debt. Yeah, I know. So I don't know.  Just don't look.  I just. I'm not. I don't even know them too.  I'm sorry. That was just like.  I'm just like I was.  Corporate speak like that, just like truly triggers me to. Before I became. A social worker. So. It just really. I just assumed nothing good will come of it.  So we're we're we're on all Dale to learn more, please visit alladale.com/louisiana. Our abolishment of this medical debt is a no strings attached gift. You no longer have any obligation to pay this debt to anyone at any future time because it has been cancelled as a gift of our 5013 C charity. You do not earn any income or owe any taxes on this cancellation of. Debt, we have enclosed FAQ.  Blah blah blah.  Blah blah. Here's the FAQ. Of what happened here? I think the FAQ is very who is RIP medical debt? We are a nonprofit national charity. That fund that raises funds from donors and uses those funds to acquire and abolish medical debt. Our IRS number is blah blah blah blah blah our. Since our founding in 2014, as medical Debt Resolution Inc, we have abolished over 8.5 million of medical debt. Helping nearly 5.5 million people. Are there strings attached? No rest assured, the debt reference in the letter is no longer owed and you do not have to take any action. Why are you doing this? Probably the most important part. Medical debt often results from unplanned, unexpected illness and accidents. About 1/3 of US adults have difficulty covering unexpected mental health care bills. Medical debt also is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US in many areas and for many reasons. Patient balances after insurance have been growing and many people remain uninsured. We are doing this to relieve. People of the burden of medical debt to enhance their economic opportunities and to enable them to leave to lead healthier, happier lives. Now paper crumple. Again, this is my rush, Landon. He always. Paper I used to hate. Listen to. Rush Limbaugh all the time.  Why did you listen to Rush Limbaugh?  I hate. I used to hate listen anytime like.  Oh, I thought you said hated listening. To it's like you did someone make you?  No, I would listen to him anytime. Something like when Obama like, won twice like I was like Rush Limbaugh. Let's go. Yeah, because you know, he's gonna lose. His mind. Yeah, you know, so it's like stuff like that, but. OK, so my first thought is since you were talking about Sugar Daddy scams, I was like, this is obviously a scam. What is this? So I did a little deep digging and no, it is not a scam. It's 100% real. It was started by two guys who were actually. Debt collectors, they they were executives at some like debt collecting thing. On Wall Street, across from Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street happened. They go down there and just hang out and be like what's going on. And then they find they people found out who they were. And then they're like, hey, we've got an idea. And they started this, like, rolling jubilee of really of buying people's medical debt. And then we're leaving it. And honestly. OK so my thing is this. That that thousand, that $1000, almost 1200 bucks was from a CPAP machine that I own. I paid the what do you call it? The copay or? Whatever. So I paid the copay which was $500.00 off of my and I I have a good job. I have insurance. Thank God all these things like. I'm an atheist, but I thank God every day that I've I've made it to this point in my life where I, you know, I have these things, but. It's absurd because Aaron can testify. My snoring has been so loud since I was 20 and I would stop breathing at night and wake up in the middle of the night and I could pass out anywhere because I was so tired all the time and. I was just dying, you know, like. And she made me. She's like you have to go get this checked out. They're like you have sleep apnea. You could die at any moment. So, and we have to run a bunch of tests and then then you have to pay $2000.00 for a machine that's going to keep you alive and make sure you don't stop breathing in the. Middle of night. Which seems like. It's not even seen. Let let let me scratch seem out of there that it's the most perverse, disgusting, sick thing ever. When you tell someone you know as a doctor, you're telling somebody how important a piece of equipment is and how, Oh my God, thank God we got to you when you did and. By the way, we need 2K before this that we can give you this thing that's so in. And it's I paid for the $500.00 copay and I was like, gotcha. I was like, gotcha auctioneer because you're never seeing the rest of this. I'm like, you're not. They would send me bills and I would just throw them in the garbage cause I'm like, no, I'm not. I'm not paying. For this like this is crazy.  I have. I just gotta build just because it was been a few months ago now, but I got a bill for like $1200 when I got a new IUD and I was like, I thought this was covered under the ACA, and sure the actual IUD was covered, but not the removal of my previous IUD. And I said, well, I'm just not paying that.  Get out of here.  So you know, it's not not paying it.  I'm. I'm sitting here at work and I'm like researching. I'm researching this 5013 C and for a guy like me, who I've Erin, can attest. I've literally said, you know, the words have come out of my mouth. I don't have emotions. I started to tear up, and it wasn't because. Like, I wasn't gonna pay. That actually was never gonna see that money. Bill collectors were never gonna see. I wasn't gonna pay it. I wasn't worried about. It but. It got me to think about all the people who were just crushed. Lives ruined, completely bankrupt because they have, you know, they've got a long term cancer, somebody in their family needs, you know, long term care and they're just crushed under medical debt that they're and that they've been helped by this and. Literally have their life change by this, like rolling jubilee of people like ourselves who give money to this organization that buys up people's debts for pennies on the dollar and just. Tears them up.  Also I want to I want to say sorry to all jail because I was very snarky to you and I just looked up what you do and. A good job.  We're just making all the friends out of here.  I, but I do really think you should change some of the wording on your website because you sound like an insurance. But they're actually what's called an accountability management. It's here, it's it's an accountable care organization. So what that is is essentially they function. So basically how this insurance companies pressure doctors and like other medical places to. To do the most inexpensive things possible, and and that's a really terrible thing cuz it comes at the cost of patient care, accountable management organizations. Are they essential? Are advocating for the consumers, so it's generally and it's generally for. If you start want to start an independent private practice. Usually it's really, really hard because you have to have relationships with those insurance, so you'll send like it's just really difficult. So if you do end up wanting to do that, you can enjoin in accountable management. Organization and they'll help you hook you up and figure out how to give the best care for clients. It gets rid of a lot of Medicare waste, a lot of Medicaid waste, which is often. The for profit insurance companies are doing and it's just it's a good thing. So sorry everybody.  Nice, but like I was telling Aaron as a joke. Like, yeah, I'm an atheist. Like, I don't believe in a buy and buy. But I was like if somebody was to knock on my door and proselytize to me right now, like, this is this would be the time I'm most open to it because I just kept thinking in my head up, just like a God of the Old Testament. It's like I sent you, Bernie Sanders. I sent you another. I sent you another Jewish prophet. That you refuse to listen to. So now I've got to work around this.  Which I think is so dramatic. But like when he said that the other day I was like, OK, I know we're, we're both sad about Bernie losing, but let's not.  Oh, it's fine. I'm. It's fine but. No, it's just that something like this exists, and this has been existing for, you know, decades now or decade, decades, almost since Occupy is amazing and it just it's perverse that it has to exist, that it does exist and it's and it shows how badly we need. Medicare for all, like yesterday for because. The way I describe it to people who are like, oh, I don't want that, you know, they're going. It's like we're getting taxed as American citizens out the wazoo right now. And we're receiving little. To know return our social services are inept at being the most, the most generous assessment is they're inept. So if we're going to be taxed, if you know if they're going to take money out of my check, like, let me get some of that back. So I don't have to worry about can I cough up. 2 racks. To make sure I don't die in the middle. Right. It just, it just feels like in the richest country to ever exist. This is a perverse situation.  And this was actually the same, same organization that was featured on John Oliver, if you remember, I think that was a few years ago, they did this.  Yeah, it was like 3 or 4.  They yeah, they they did this. And John Oliver, the show donated a bunch of money, bought a bunch of debt and forgave it all and. I think part of, I mean he's he's he seems like a good egg, but I think he was especially upset about the idea of medical debt just coming from the NHS in England. He is British. If you don't know who John Oliver is in England does have, you know, a government run National Health care system.  Which is actually socialized medicine, like Medicare for all like. It's not even that. It's not even the NHS. So I'm just saying this. I'm interrupting this. So if anybody, you know, cause you've got that next level of reactionary who who knows a little something. So if they ever try to come at you with like, oh, the NHS is in shambles or the NHS, you know doesn't work, right, well, the NHS is not Medicare for all. We're not talking about an act like auction or Turo. Being run by the government, it's just the government. I mean, it's just auction or Turo. Your local doctor sends that check. Bill to Uncle Sam to to dark Brandon instead of you. That's the only difference.  They're already doing for people who are on Medicaid. And so it's not like a new model, it would just be including more people in the model that already exists.  The best, the best healthcare I ever and I have. You know, I have decent insurance now through my employer, which is an all another a just atrocity. It's it's surreal. It's 1984, George Orwin. That we that we even have. The best health insurance I ever got. Was through Medicaid like when I when I I didn't have a job. Until I got another one I got on. Absolutely the best insurance I've ever.  Had you know?  Like the my prescriptions were doggone near free. I well, I started seeing a therapist then because I didn't have to pay a copay. It was it like Medicaid, literally I, I mean this might be a little too. It was definitely life changing. It could have even.  Saved my life. I would agree with that. And just to just to as an example of how petty insurance companies are, I had a client who had disability. I think it was like $1100 and he made just too much with this ability that he didn't also qualify for Medicaid. So he had Medicare, but not Medicaid, so he still had to had to co-pay for prescriptions. And he also had a pretty serious drug addiction and so didn't generally have a lot of money at the end of. Month and would just like not be able to afford his $4 heart medication. And so like, I would just end up buying them a lot of times like what am I gonna do?  $4 dude.  Have him have a heart attack cuz he couldn't pay for four $4.00, but it's like and I think he was. Covered by like United. Or something. So it's like it's so absurd. It's like. They're just nickel and diming the poorest people and.  Yeah. So that's why I want to, you know, yeah, no, 100%. So that's funny. You say that about United?  Preaching the choir. But my God, it's bad.  So I here in new here in New Orleans, I had united is in Louisiana, United is the one that does our Medicaid.  So there's actually multiple Medicaid providers. So there's United Healthcare, there's healthy blue, there's Louisiana healthcare connections, Aetna and Humana.    So we have five different providers that. So basically, all of the Medicaid money gets funneled into those into those insurance companies, and they have a specific plan for Medicaid. And if you are on Medicaid, I believe you're allowed to change providers once a year. And if you're on Medicare, I believe you can change once 1/4.  So I had united Medicaid, so I didn't know that was a thing. So I got a job working for the city, and now I also united, does the insurance for the city so. The thing is, when I will call for a specialist and I'll call a specialist and they'll be like what insurance do you have? And I'll I'll say united and immediately they'll be like, well, we don't and I'll be like, I work for the City of New Orleans, and you can hear their tone change and they go. OK. Because they're so ready to be like, Nope, no, not doing Medicaid, but it's and. And I'm. I want to be like. You dirty dog like. The Medicaid that you're pooling is was better than the insurance.  And the reason so the.  I have now.  Reason why they don't want because it's like. OK, insurance is insurance is insurance and it's because the government refuses to pay some of the prices that the insurance companies will pay. And it's if you've ever gotten a hospital bill where they charged you $500.00 for two aspirin, which is real and not uncommon, the government just says no.  Yeah, that happens every day that happening random.  So that's the reason why these insurance companies.  That's awesome.  Because, like why they don't? Why they're lobbying against. A Medicaid, because you would, you would think, OK, if everybody has insurance that's more clients for these insurance companies, but they don't want that because they it it's less profit for them and the hospitals don't want that because hospitals are generally not nonprofits, we're lucky in.  Plus profit.  In this state that you know, or at least in New Orleans, that most of the hospitals around here are nonprofits, but. You know that's not the case in a lot of places in the country. And so the hospital, hospital administrators don't want, I almost said hospital staff. And I'm like, no those nurses. They would give you. That aspirin for free, if they could. But the hospital administration want to be able to charge, you know, whatever, and part of that is because they have to pay such high salaries. To the doctors because the doctors all have like $400,000 in education, debt and so on and so forth. And so you. A lot like as we were talking about earlier in the show, like part of the reason why a solution like Medicaid for all or Medicare for all is so abhorrent to so many people is because it's going to, it's going to be like. The first domino and a domino effect of showing how inflated so many costs are and how few people are benefiting from that money.  Yes, yes. And that's why that's why they fought so hard against Obamacare, which was just Romneycare, because once you get that wedge. In there it goes back to this all loops back to their previous conversation. Once you get that wedge in there and you show people no, this is how things should.  Be yeah. So for instance, if you have Medicaid, at least in Louisiana, they'll pay for your cancer treatment like they'll pay for your cancer treatment.  Then you know there's no. Going back, you know, watching window.  There's not gonna. There's not a question if you're gonna. Get chemo or not? But private insurance companies, if you meet your maximum benefit amount. She might not get. Chemo so it's. Like the hospitals, wanna keep charging insane prices? The insurance companies want to still make that profit, but part of the way they make that profit is by being able to deny you from certain procedures. Like there's zero reason why your CPAP had to cost $1500.  That's insane. That's absolutely insane.  Yeah, like, I actually just go sleep at myself because we're both old and can't breathe properly. If you are wondering why I sound a little more chipper cuz I'm actually sleeping like fantastic, highly recommend. And I'm I went through and this is this is honestly like, so dystopian. I went through a startup, an Internet startup, to get my CPAP.  That's so gross.  I logged, I said how to get, cuz I tried to sign up for a sleep, study through oschner and the first available appointment wasn't until April and this was back in. Back in November of last year, I was going to just have to wait, but it was getting so bad that I was forgetting English like I just could not remember words my cognition.  And what's one of the main things about they tell you about, oh, we can't do socialized medicine cause there's gonna be waitlists.  Show that.  I have insurance through my employer. Now you're telling me I am going to die. But can you just please not do it for like 4 months till we can?  Get you in? Yeah, yeah. So I have a private insurance as well and I was content to just wait, but yeah, like I said it was. It was getting bad. So I I googled how sleep studies New Orleans and app came up. I basically filled out a survey. They got me connected with a Doctor Who was like, yeah, you should probably get a sleep study. They ordered the sleep study. They mailed it to me. I wore it at night. Transmitted all the data via the app and then they were like, yeah, you're like not breathing. Apparently I was getting 6% of the REM sleep.  I was supposed to.  Get and sleep. So basically REM sleep is where you repair your cognition, so that's where you kind of like sort and process all the information you got during the day and then deep sleep is where your body. The parents itself. So I was getting enough deep sleep, but I wasn't getting any REM. And for you know, people who don't know that much about insomnia. Basically, when you have insomnia, your body goes from light sleep where are not really. It's kind of like that period before you get to the other part. You go from light sleep to deep sleep because your body is in survival mode. You need your body more than your smarts in order to survive. So it goes to. You repair your body, so you might not wake up feeling sick, but you're not. Be able to remember anything like I was at work just like it was. It was perfect. It was affecting my job. Performance honestly, which is why I looked for the sleep study and yeah, so they sent me the device, got it back. I have it. I'm paying. I financed my CPAP. So yeah, we're doing great as a society, but it's. So yeah, so. It's just like. You should be listening to good morning, comrades. If you're not pro single payer healthcare, but.  Yeah, absolutely. But we're running out of time, but I I invite everybody to check out ripmedicaldebt.org, see what they're about. Just on their web page, big splash screen just. I'll just read it to you just as it says, abolish medical debt at pennies on the dollar every $100 you donate relieves $10,000 in medical debt. Who I mean. The amount of people that that, this, that this nonprofit is helping. In this six sad world is. I I really can't understate how awesome they are, so thank you for helping me. And we'll see you guys next time I love. You, babe. I cut it off. You're not on there. You can't. Tell me you love me back.    But anyway, yeah. 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Joel Saxum and Allen Hall review the latest info from the tower tip-over at the Pioneer Trail Wind Farm in Illinois. Keystone Tower Systems completes its first spiral welded tower for GE, and signs a big agreement for many more. The first monopile for Vineyard Wind is shipped from Germany to kick-off the build. SENSEWind developed a new method of assembling a wind turbine - could it be a game changer? The Netherlands is tracking submarines in their offshore wind farms, and our Wind Farm of the Week is Black Rock Wind Farm in West Virginia. Visit Pardalote Consulting at https://www.pardaloteconsulting.com Wind Power Lab - https://windpowerlab.com Weather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.com Intelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Uptime 154 Allen Hall: Joel, I'm working on six different time zones today, , and that's the way it's been for the last two or three weeks. All around the world. We're getting phone calls and Zoom calls Northern Hemisphere, Southern hemisphere. It, it, it does add up for a small business when you're dealing with so many time zones. Joel Saxum: Oh, man. I was, I was thinking before when, before you hopped on here today and I was, we were talking, I was, I have talked through four. and I thought I was busy. And you're over here with six different times. Those under your belt. And then it's, it's not even dark yet. Yeah,  Allen Hall: it's not dark. I, I still have time. Australia will be calling here in a minute. . There you go. You're up to  Joel Saxum: seven. Lucky number seven. Allen Hall:  Number seven. There it is. I think I've set the record at least for this week. There you go. Well, we have a lot of wind energy news this week. The big win in America is that a wind tur been tipped over in Illinois. While that's the, a big talking point, I'm not. But it is all the rage on LinkedIn, so we'll, we'll talk about it. More importantly Keystone and GE connect on the spiral steel towers, and that's something I have been waiting for, for uhno a year or two. And I'm just on Looker, but I think that's a really cool  Joel Saxum: project. We'll jump over since wind and we're gonna talk about this company coming outta the UK that is doing something. Okay. Basically a cli, a self erecting tower, or Alan during the episode has his own New term for this tower technology. And then we'll speak about the Netherlands accusing Russia of spying on some of their offshore wind farms. Not sure why or how Google Earth is your friend to find this stuff out, but the Russians are in that corner of the world peeking around also. Touching again on some tower technology. We speak a little bit about the first monopile that's on its way to vineyard wood one off the CO east coast of the us. So that's happening now. And then to close out the episode our new. Feature is the Wind Farm of the week. We're gonna talk about the BlackRock Wind Farm in West Virginia and what they're doing over there with the new five megawatt Siemens Kamasa machines. I'm  Allen Hall: Alan Hall, president of Weather Guard, lightning Tick. And I'm here with my good friend from Wind Power Lab, Joel Saxum. And the soon to be guest host, fully charged Live. Rosemary isn't here today, but should be back next week, and this is the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. Joel officials for R W E Renewables are investigating what caused one of their wind turbines to fall over at its Pioneer Trail Wind Farm up in Illinois. The turbine was taken offline earlier because it was leanin...

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Episode 15 of the Moose Hunt Podcast consists of host Chris Richards sitting down with team members Dana Valleau and Ken Mayo for an educational discussion on important moose related topics as well as some crazy moose encounter stories. Dana Valleau, a wildlife biologist by training, discusses the life cycle and challenges of winter tick and the importance of science and research in making sounds wildlife management decisions. The team members then each share the craziest thing they have each witnessed a moose do- and Chris's story specifically is one that is truly mind blowing. 

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Broadway Drumming 101 is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Damon DueWhite (drums, percussion) a native of Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, learned to play the drums at the age of six from his father. At fourteen, he played in local bands in the Philadelphia and the New York Tri-State area. Prior to embarking on his first tour with the vocalist Roberta Flack in 1982, DueWhite, attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.DueWhite has performed and/or recorded with Vanessa Williams and The National Symphony Orchestra, Hugh Masekela, Oliver Lake, Regina Carter, Philip Harper, Rachelle Ferrell, Miriam Makeba, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Rubin, Carla Cook, Craig Harris, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jonathan Butler, George Duke, Roberta Flack, Alex Bugnon, Vivian Reed, Jennifer Holliday, Joe, Joan Osborne, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Chuck Berry, Vernon Reid, Nona Hendrix, Johnny Clyde Copland, Shemekia Copeland, Johnnie Johnson, Sarah Dash, Mick Taylor, Axelle Red and David Linx.His Broadway credits are the first U.S. tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk", the national tour of the Tony Award-nominated blues revue “It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues.” His other work on Broadway includes the Tony Award-winning musical “The Color Purple” and “Holler If Ya Hear Me” based on the music of Tupac Shakur, and the Tony-nominated production of “Motown: The Musical.” The Tony Award-winning show “Hello Dolly.” Featuring Bette Midler and Tina Turner the Musical.DueWhite has also performed in a number of music festivals around the world, including the Montreux Jazz Festival (France), North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Jazz in Tokyo Festival, Banlieues Bleues Festival(France), Australia's Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival, International Jazz Festival of Bern, Switzerland, Bastia Equinox Jazz Festival (Corsica), Montreal Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival, Long Beach Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Fort Meade Jazz Festival, and the Capital Jazz Festival. Along with his countless performances in the United States, DueWhite has toured Africa, Australia, China, South America, Japan, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.He has also appeared on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, BET Jazz Central, VH-1, C-Span, and WNBC New York Positively Black.For more: https://www.moderndrummer.com/2016/10/beat-damon-duewhite-five-tips-starting/When you subscribe to Broadway Drumming 101, you'll learn everything you need to know about playing drums for broadway musicals and what it takes to be a successful musician.For only $5 a month, or $50 a year, you will receive behind-the-scenes access to the life of a musician who makes a living on Broadway through YouTube videos, bi-weekly podcasts, and articles on what you need to know about being a professional musician.Currently, we have no ads, sponsors, investors, lots of staff, or corporate backers. It is just a small core of us creating valuable content for everyone interested in what we have to offer. We would appreciate any financial contributions you can make to continue the production of high-quality content.If you'd like to become a voluntarily paid subscriber, subscribe here: OR, if you would like to help without becoming a formal subscriber (or supplement your subscription cost, as many generously do…), you can buy us a cup of coffee (or a week's worth) by clicking here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BD101You can even help with buying us a few drinks (at Manhattan prices) HERE: https://ko-fi.com/broadwaydrumming101• PayPal. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/broadwaydrumming101• Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/broadwaydrumming101We also have merchandise! https://merchandise.broadwaydrumming101.comThanks!Clayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and Newsletter. He has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain't Too Proud.The Broadway Drumming 101 Instagram page: InstagramThe Broadway Drumming 101 YouTube page: YouTubeFor more about Clayton, click HERE Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

Sie sind häufiger als Schnee im Winter: Füllwörter wie «eigentlich», «irgendwie», «relativ», «ähm» oder «genau» bevölkern unsere gesprochene Sprache. Und sie werden inbrünstig gehasst. Als Modal- und Diskurspartikel erfüllen sie aber auch wichtige Funktionen. Füllwörter sind viel mehr als sinnlose Lückenfüller. Sie wirken als Signale und Gesprächslenker. Sie geben Aussagen eine Haltung oder Wertung, können sie abschwächen, verstärken oder anders färben. Werden Füllwörter aber zum Tick und inflationär gebraucht, behindern sie das Verständnis. Nadia und Markus diskutieren leidenschaftlich über die wohl emotionalste aller Wortgruppen. Und entdecken, dass sie selbst nicht ganz ohne Füllwörter auskommen. Genau!