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Dr. Deb Muth 00:03What if bloating, back pain, and low energy aren’t separate problems, but clues from the same root cause? What if your posture and the way your fascia moves are changing how your digestion works and how you feel every day? Today, we’re unpacking why symptoms like bloating, fatigue, and persistent pain often come from deeper, whole body issues, and how a multimodal, root cause approach speeds real recovery. You guys can, put our advertisement in here for Venari before we do the intro.Welcome back to Let’s Talk Wellness Now, the show where we uncover the root causes of chronic illness, explore cutting-edge regenerative and integrative care, and empower you with practical tools to heal.I’m Dr. Deb, your medical detective, and today we’re talking about whole body recovery, how movement, fascia, gut health, and personalized medicine come together to restore function, energy, and confidence in your body. If you or someone you love struggles with bloating, pain that won’t quit. Slow recovery after surgery or postpartum, or chronic low energy, this episode is for you.So get comfortable, grab a warm drink, And let’s get into it.So today, I’m joined by Dr. Shalini Bhat, founder of the Movement Boutique in Toronto. She is a chiropractor and double-certified functional medicine practitioner who builds care around root causes, lady after my own heart. And rather than just treating the symptoms, as we all know, and you guys have heard me talk about before, that is how we get to the other side of things. So, what I love about your work is you blend the clinical expertise and that lived experience, and just before we started recording, we were talking about the difference of fascia.and chiropractic, and even when you’re looking at bringing in acupuncture and Pilates and functional medicine, having all those modalities together is so amazing. So, before we dive into all of this stuff. Tell us a little bit about your own story. Shalinibhat 02:49Yeah, well, my own story is that I grew up very steeped in Western medicine. My father’s a surgeon, and I had, you know, access to all the allopathic care that was out there, but I kind of had all that, what I call, gray area symptoms. That doesn’t make it into, you know, an allopathic answer, so to speak. And so, having access to all of… you know, the best… this specialist and that specialist didn’t really give my IBS you know, some type of help, and it didn’t really give my chronic back pain some type of help. And I kept, like, tearing my meniscus. I was a dancer, and I just kept, like, thinking, I’m doing all the same things as all these other girls in my class. Why am I the one who keeps tearing my meniscus? Like, what is up with… they… like, we all have the exact same tissues. Why is my tissue resilience so low? that this keeps happening to me. And I seem to be the only one in, you know. from dancing from 3 till I was… when I was 3 till when I was 18, and experiencing this, and I’m looking at everybody, like, what’s the deal? And I sort of felt different, but I couldn’t really pinpoint what was going on, and probably similar to your story. all the things that were coming at me were just labels and diagnoses, and like, you know, same with my meniscus, they were like, the first time, they were like, alright, we do surgery. I was like, okay, sounds good, like, went and did the surgery. The second time it, tore, I was like, that obviously didn’t, do it, because they took out 30% the first time, and then, you know, some of the 70%, you know, tore. And I said, there has to be… there has to be some reason why my My tissue resilience is low, and why that shear force is going through on my left knee every single time, like that same mechanical strain is happening, and fast forward to today, I realized that fascia is this fabric that runs all over the body in huge swaths, and in very large, sort of movement patterns, which we’ll get into, but basically, the way that I was, like, standing, the way that I was… my tissue resilience was less, that’s what was setting the stage for me to re-tear that meniscus, but nobody was asking those questions. My IBS, like the stealth infections I had, the leaky gut I had, all of those things creating excessive inflammation just in my body in general was decreasing my tissue resilience and making me re-injure that same area. So instead of, oh, I’ll just keep getting it, you know, shaved down or taken out, like, why was that same mechanistic injury and strain happening? on that knee, and I started asking different questions, which led me to, instead of going to medical school, say, oh, wait, chiropractors can actually, like, you know.Actually move the body, understand what’s going on, spend the time with patients to properly diagnose, and then actually use our hands, because I’ve always been a very tactile person. Being a dancer, you know you’re always using your body, I understand my body, so when I started my kinesiology degree. I… kinesiology was a no-brainer. I’m like, I have a body, I want to use it, I want to learn… you know, when I’m learning about the muscles and the hands and the… like, I have that, so it’s… I’ve always been a touch kind of person, and that makes sense to me, learning about the body. And, that’s why I ended up studying in such, let’s say, asking alternative questions, so to speak, and that’s why even when I finished my kinesiology degree, and even when I finished my chiropractic training, I still went to school to learn acupuncture training, because I still had more questions, and thenI… and concurrently, I was teaching Pilates as well, and Pilates always resonated with me because I thought, yeah, if you have this really strong powerhouse and this really strong core, that always helped my back. And it always helped my knee. And so, translating kind of all four of these modalities, the chiropractic, the fascial release, the acupuncture, and the Pilates, became sort of my… my own little method that I created on how to help people. I probably… a lot of people listening to this, think of chiropractic as, like, you go somewhere and you get crack, crack, crack top to bottom. That actually is not how I’ve ever practiced, either, because even when I was chronically inflamed with all these issues, even an adjustment would send me into more inflammation, and I would be, in… having aches and pains, so that was not even… I needed it so much gentler, and that’s why I started working with fascia and thinking, like, what else is here? And, like, if someone’s so inflamed, maybe an adjustment is too aggressive for, somebody in the moment. And there’s a time and a place for everything, don’t get me wrong, but that wasn’t my personal, you know, go-to, so to speak, and so that’s why I started working more gently around fascia, and that’s why I used acupuncture needles, and pilates training, and rehabilitation, and looking at people’s movement patterns, and seeing, okay, where are things going off here, and what’s the actual… I hate the word root cause, but that’s where we all come from, it’s just gotten so crazy. But really, truly, if you have back pain, why are we just looking at the back.Like, if your entire pelvis is off, if your entire, like, body is leaning to one side, and you’re putting way more weight on one foot than another, like, why are we… why are we just treating the back? Why are we just adjusting the back? Why are we just, you know, putting ice on the back, or put… or putting painkillers, or rubbing things on the back? We gotta look at the entire body as one whole system when it comes to injury, and that’s my very long backstory to tell you how I… sort of amassed these different things that I do, And in my training. Sorry, I forgot one piece in there, and that’s… with my gut thing and my IBS, I went back to school and did functional medicine training to figure out what that was about, because, and even when my uncle mentioned it, I think, oh gosh, early 2000s, he said, leaky gut, and I thought, well, people probably think these days, like, wait, there’s holes in my stomach? You know, like, what isAnd at that time, you know, way back in the day, the first test was, like, that, flakulose mannitol, like, that really. Dr. Deb Mut 08:53Boom. Shalinibhat 08:53You can get tests. Yeah. Now, obviously, we’ve come a long way. So yeah, that’s how I ended up with all these five random modalities that are sort of enmeshed into one, and that’s what we do in my practice. My clinical practice is literally all of those modalities, and we really meet people where they are. So we invite anyone to come to us with, whether they have an MSK issue, and that’s the primary thing they want to work on, we can do it by starting Pilates. We can do it by starting fascial training. We can do it by starting acupuncture. We can do it by running labs and seeing where you are functionally if you want to lower that inflammation, or those stealth infections, or whatever it is that you have going on. So we invite anyone to come in and sort of pick their service menu, because I feel we… we should help everyone, but not everyone feels… like, not everyone’s like, wow, I want to run a school test with you first. They may have the capacity to be like, okay, I’ll try a workout, or I’ll try a Pilates class, you know? And then once they’re in our space, they’re like, oh wait, what else do you offer here? This is really different than where I’ve been. So that’s sort of what my practice is all about. Dr. Deb Muth 09:58I love that. I love that blending of all of the different things, and I think, you know, some of the best practitioners are those who’ve been through things, and it doesn’t have to be that way, but we kind of explore all the different things that could be causing our issues, which allows us to have a little bit bigger reach, across modalities, because there’s never the one thing that fixes everything. It’s kind of like in the conventional medicine world, we’re looking for the one pill that fixes everything, and there just isn’t that. And so, when you’re looking at blending all of these things, eventually you will find the right thing for each person, because it could be very different. You know, what works for me might not work for you, or it might be a different combination, and I think looking at each person as an individual is really important these days. Shalinibhat 10:44Totally, yeah, and I can’t… like, I just have to emphasize what you said again, because everyone is looking for it to be… you have patients like this, I have patients like this who come and they’re like, I’m just looking for that one guru, that one person who’s gonna finally tell me what it is that I have. Finally, I’m looking for that one answer, I’m looking for that one supplement, and like, if I can just reiterate exactly what you said, like. there will be 10 different kind of things that could be bothering you, and 10 different kind of solutions that will be the best for any given person, and if we just change our mindset around that, like, just say, oh, there won’t be one exact thing, and one exact solution, and I should be bucketing myself into 10 different things, and like, just… even just the sheer change of mindset and expectation, I think would help like, everybody, including practitioners, right? Because people will come to us and say, what is the one thing? What is the one, like, what is the one supplement, right? Dr. Deb Muth 11:38Yeah. Shalinibhat 11:39it’s too much pressure, right? Dr. Deb Muth 11:41It is, yeah. Shalinibhat 11:42Yeah. Dr. Deb Muth 11:44Yeah. Yeah, when they come and say, you’re my last hope, and you’re like, oh boy. I hope not, but that’s how we get sometimes. We’re looking for that person with that final answer, and and there is… there’s not just one answer, and I think that’s the important takeaway. So, let’s dive into, fascia. It’s a word that a lot of people might have heard, but don’t really understand what that is. Tell us about fascia and how it fits into the influence of movement and pain, and how can we change that for people? Shalinibhat 12:19Yeah, I love this question, because even one of my own patients who I manually treated for, you know, 14, 13 years, she said to me, Charlie, you know what’s becoming so hot? There’s the word fascia. I’m hearing it all of a sudden. I was like, what? So, yes, even people receiving fascial care, sometimes don’t even put two and two together. Fascia is basically when you cut open a chain chicken breast. When you cut open a steak, there’s that sort of film that’s on, you know, the chicken, or there’s that kind of film around a steak, and those white kind of areas, that we sort of cut off. That is fascia, and if you picture it in a chicken breast, it’s really that… it’s really that thin layer that comes off of that chicken. And what’s really cool about fascia is it’s highly resilient when it’s stretched, so if you actually were to picture stretching that chicken, you know, piece, if you actually, like, you know, hit it with your finger, it would be pretty tensile.But if you kind of let it go and be, relaxed, it’s very flexible. So you could actually take your finger and almost put your finger through that piece of that film, and it would almost make it all the way. So fascia is very flexible, but it’s also extremely resilient. And that is… those two qualities of that fabric are what will give us more tissue resilience.The other thing that we need… sorry, I should also back up. Fascia, by the way, is just a fabric that encases everything in your body. So, it’s a support structure, it holds our organs up in the places where they’re meant to be, otherwise gravity would pull them all down into our pelvis. It surrounds every, you know, blood vessel and nerve and, lymph, area, and then let alone all your muscles and your bones. So, even when we’re talking about something like bone health and bone strength, you know, often people are talking just about this calcium conversation when we’re talking about bone, for example, and fascia is encasing that bone, right? So I just talked about the resilience of that type of, what’s on a chicken breast. I’ll actually change analogies here just to… for people to understand a little more. If you take women’s nylons, of those thin nylons, same thing, right? If you pull them really tight, and you were just holding them in your hand, and someone were to flick it, it’s very strong, right? But again, if you held it single layer and kind of put your finger through, it’s very flexible. So, in… as we age.If that tissue’s getting really tight and dehydrated and, you know, it’s not flexible as bone moves, right? That fabric is what’s holding that bone and creating that sort of shock absorption if we’re doing anything. It’s that women’s nylon that’s kind of shock absorbing that bone when it’s coming down you know, jumping, landing, whatever, running, whatever it is that we’re doing. So that’s why one of the big things of, you know, strength training or keeping your body moving as you age is because it continues to make that fabric that’s actually around the bone. So yes, we talk about things in such isolation. Oh, we need bone health, we need bone strength. Okay, that’s great, but what’s actually intertwined right around that bone, creatingthat integrity is fascia. And one of the ways to keep it, again, flexible and tensile and strong, which are the two qualities we wanted it, is to keep it very hydrated. And there’s, you know, another kind of way to think about hydrated and not hydrated fascia. If you think of beef jerky, but you think of steak, you can… a raw steak, sorry guys, if anyone’s vegan. The beef jerky spirit, you can tear it super easily. Right? But you can’t take a piece of raw steak and tear it with your bare hands, right? You can’t. It’s so strong. So the same thing goes for that type of hydration. You want to keep that tissue really hydrated, and that’s why in a lot of scenarios with chronic aches or pains.The tissue is really dehydrated, and so that’s why, when someone goes for a massage, or they go for fascial release, or they have direct stimulation to that tissue, that’s actually breaking those adhesions and kind of, almost like a sponge, it’s compressing and releasing, which is actually bringing more moisture into that gel-like matrix that is fascia which allows those fibers to move again, so again, we’re bringing that flexibility and that tensile strength back, which gives you more of that raw steak texture versus that beef jerky, right? That beef jerky’s so vulnerable. You go to do a workout on beef jerky, you’re ripping your muscle. I’m so sore, I can’t get up and, you know, people who are so unusually sore the next day, for example, versus those people who have nice, hydrated fascia that they… that they’re great, they’re working on a raw steak texture, they’re not going to rip something or have that feeling of being so vulnerable. So that’s basically, yeah, to answer your question about where fascia fits into, everything. And again, just to reiterate fascia it actually… when you look at… I don’t know if you know any of the work of Tom Myers, that’s who I studied way back in the day, like.In the early 2000s he, you know, wrote this book called Anatomy Trains, and what it, illustrates is how long the connections of fascia are. So, the exact same sheath might start from our forehead and our scalp and go all the way down the back of the skull, all the way down the spine, through the pelvis, down the back, down the hamstrings, down the calves, right into the plantar fascia. So, I… I say plantar fascia because that’s the one area I think people have heard the word fascia before. So, although they’ve heard plantar fasciitis probably more. Dr. Deb Muth 18:06But no. Shalinibhat 18:07you know, it’s from the plantar fascia. And the plantar fascia is a continuous sheath of fascia all the way up to our head. So, you know, at any point along that entire chain, there might be a dysfunction. So you might be having… you might be experiencing plantar fasciitis, but you’re… that… you could address that person’s fascia anywhere along that entire line. To be able to truly again, within quotation marks, root cause, address that plantar fasciitis, because someone might have plantar fasciitis, it hurts when they step out of bed in the morning, they have that exact classical pain, they’ve been to the GP, GP says, yep, you got plantar fasciitis, they go, okay, and now they’re, you know. no better off, they might give them, like, a few things to do, but really, if they actually address that entire channel of fascia, they would give themselves more space, and consequently decrease a lot of that inflammation in that one area that’s, again, getting… just like my knee injury at the beginning, why is that one area taking so much brunt? there’s an issue along the chain. And I’m giving you one train, but there are many different trains that work in long sheets throughout the whole body. And another way I, like, sort of. I like analogies because I’m a visual person. Again, back to that dance mindset. I think another way people can really get on board with, like, fascia being in long sheaths is picturing a woman in a one-piece bathing suit. If you pull up the shoulder straps of that one-piece bathing suit, can you give her a wedgie? Like, she can pick that wedgie all day long. Dr. Deb Muth 19:42Right. Shalinibhat 19:43actually the shoulder straps that you need to release to get rid of it completely. So that’s kind of, like, the easiest example I can give to someone to relate, like, because they might have that wedgie-type experience or symptom, and they go to their doctor, I’m having a wedgie, I’m having a wedgie, and they’re like. Dr. Deb Muth 19:58No. Shalinibhat 19:59let’s pick it, let’s glue the bathing suit down, let’s do this, let’s do that. Really, someone’s up here franking those shoulder straps way up. You’re never going to get rid of that wedgie unless you actually see where it’s getting, pulled. And really. rings true for the gut as well, which is what I’ve learned. And… like I mentioned, fascia’s encasing our entire organ and organ systems as well, so if people are, you know, messed up and torqued in their spiral line, for example, and if they also are having tightness in different areas of their, you know, whatever, stomach, small intestine, large, like, anywhere along the actual gut, that that does make a big difference for bowel habits, gas, you know, trapped gas, IPS, all that kind of stuff as well. So the musculoskeletal component. And this fascial tangling, for example, also does make a big difference with IBS and stomach aches and all that kind of stuff as well. Dr. Deb Muth 21:02Yeah, and I think, too, one of the biggest things that we disregard, or maybe just don’t think of when it comes to GI issues, is the psoas muscle. Like, when people are constipated, and you start pushing around on that psoas muscle, they’re not gonna like you very much. But even for, like, that low back, that pelvic pain, if we start adjusting that and start doing movements, or yoga, or just massage of that psoas muscle and do a release on the psoas muscle. it can make a huge difference in somebody’s lower back pain. Do you want to speak a little bit to that? Shalinibhat 21:39Yeah, I mean, so there’s… yes, and, I mean, the psoas also right there, fascially, is, on the same train as the diaphragm. So, right under there, how that rib cage is sitting. And how the diaphragm tightness related to exactly what you’re saying, let’s say the top of the psoas fascia, for example, that’s going to change our breathing mechanics, which is also going to change the pressure, you know, kind of pressing down through the gut and everything which we need. It’s also going to change how we’re breathing. So, you know, you and I know taking lower, slower belly breaths and full breaths Better than shallow, breathing up through the neck, which people can relate to by, you know, people always are like, oh, are you sure breathwork’s gonna help? I’m like, if I gave you a paper bag right now and told you to hyperventilate for a scene of a movie like you were an actor, would you actually induce a panic attack on yourself? Potentially. even go the other way, that yes, maybe, you know, sitting down and proper breathing could actually, yes, bring you into this relaxed state, which we, of course, know that, but sometimes people are like, breathing, whatever, that can’t make a difference, right? And you’re like, oh, let’s do the hyperventilation one, let’s give you the bag and start just going, right? See how you feel. Dr. Deb Muth 22:54Yeah, exactly. Shalinibhat 22:56that breathwork and changing someone’s breathing mechanics, and I mean this in a gross, sense of actually, because I’ve done a ton of hands-on work for the last 16 years, when you actually release… a lot of people have tight diaphragms, they don’t even realize, and when you actually get in there and can release that fascia. Not only are a lot of those peoplethose tight, psoaszy people that you just mentioned. But it can dramatically, change how the gut is moving and how they’re feeling in that area as well, right? Again, that pressure change, moving gas, all of that. And then. Going down, how the psoas goes from right under the rib cage to the front of the hip, and I know this is a podcast, so I’m trying to speak it out for people who don’t… who can’t, visualize it, but it comes off the front wall of the lower spine, and then goes all the way down to the hips. And when this muscle can feel tight, to your point, this could feel like appendicitis on one side, you know? At some point, this can be very uncomfortable. I had a patient, actually, very similar story recently. had, like, almost a psoas spasm with a torque through her spine, and diaphragm tight, that’s exactly what I was telling you about. Went to the hospital, thought she had appendicitis, had every, like, ran every single test, was in agony, came to see me, we did all this fascial release of all that exact area. She was like, my pain’s gone. And, like, that’s not something they would ever evaluate there. Dr. Deb Muth 24:21No, they don’t even think about it. Shalinibhat 24:24No, it wouldn’t even cross their mind. So, Yes, there are definitely postural consequences. to not only people who are having tummy aches, gut issues, stomach pain, but it will affect breathing mechanics, and to your point, releasing… I find releasing anywhere in that mid-area, so diaphragm, top of the psoas, like, getting in the obliques, like, anywhere that people can start to relieve in that area is fantastic, and if people need, like, a kind of at-home way to do that, you can take… you can, like, roll up a washcloth and even just put it under where your ribs kind of connect at the front, and just lie on it and let your rib cage kind of fall over it. If you have, we have a little cork ball here, that’s a thing you can sort of put in that area, like, kind of just, under the rib cage. And on either side of the midline is sort of where you would start. If anything felt completely uncomfortable, anyone listening, absolutely adjust it, and start with something less. But that can be such a big, tool, just opening up the front wall of that deeper fascia, for sure. Dr. Deb Muth 25:36That’s awesome. How do you use Pilates? Pilates is well known for so many things, right? But when you’re using Pilates, how do you use it to retrain the movement patterns to reduce pain long-term? Shalinibhat 25:50Okay, so that’s such a good question. So I did training in Pilates 20 years ago. so I would say it’s Pilates-informed, but it’s certainly not directly Joseph Pilates work that I, use by any means, if people are picturing his sequence or anything like that. But that basically informed my… understanding of the core, and I was teaching for 20 years, you know, like, just watching movement patterns, movement patterns, and what I noticed, which is so fascinating, the number of, men, actually, who have diastasis, who, you know, they maybe reach midlife and just Like, suddenly got that belly fat or something, and, like, they’re… they have a diastasis, and, like, they maybe play hockey, or they’re playing, you know, they’re weekend warrioring, kind of, their workouts, and suddenly get really bad back pain, and they have the tightest hips because they’re not really doing any type of cross-training, but they’re… They’re working… they’re doing so much hockey. And they have this back pain, and they’re like, I have no idea what’s going on. And again, they go to the… practitioner that myopically is like, it’s back pain, let’s do an image, oh, it’s a disc bulge here, and like, okay, you know, let’s do these XYZ. And I’m like, dude, these people… this is a diastasis, like, you have literally separated your. Dr. Deb Muth 27:06Nope. Shalinibhat 27:06You are not using your deep core at all. It’s completely, un, what’s the word? It’s unconnected. Like, they actually training as if they had a baby. So it’s really… it’s a population that I think is, like, not, because sometimes when we’re in school, you and me both, we learn these very textbook things that we know when a woman’s had a baby to evaluate her abdomen, you know, to look for diastasis. Dr. Deb Muth 27:33Right. Shalinibhat 27:33Or retraining, that’s a time in a woman’s life during school that we were very much, you know, that’s a… that’s where diastasis, that’s where you hear that word, right? Listening, sorry, diastasis is when your abdominal wall separates in the front from a quick or fast, abdominal expansion, which is why we think of it with, Prenatal, postpartum-type, situations. But we’re… we’re completely omitting this, this… you know, just evaluating people in general. I just saw, a young lady yesterday in her 20s, and she does Pilates every single day. Every single day she does Pilates, and she’s like, I can’t feel my obliques. And I was like, come in here, come in here, let me check this out. And her superficial, her, rectus abdominis, which is her most superficial abdominal layer, it was compensating For her obliques. And that shouldn’t be the case when you’re 20, and I had to undo a whole bunch of different kind of fascial torques that were happening, because When somebody… like, if you picture… if you picture blocks standing on each other and they’re not, sort of, perfectly aligned. then they’re gonna topple, right? And I’m just saying that for the people listening, like, that’s when I say fascial torque, it means that the structure isn’t, isn’t optimal in how it’s going to fire, and how the muscles are going to signal to contract. And so what I had to do, I had to say, wow, it’s actually so cool how your superficial rectus abdominis has compensated for your obliques in this way, and it was, like, really fascinating to watch it, actually, and how she would get around doing it. But we had to completely undo those torques, and then she was able to use her obliques afterwards. So I think there’s a huge miss in abdominal evaluation when it comes to chronic low back pain, or back pain, or, yeah, when you’re talking about, like, where does Pilates fit in, I think Pilates is great when you have somebody who’s really good at teaching it, and I use, principles from it to evaluate people’s core. I mean, so hard to say, because I’ve been doing it for so long now, where I’ve pulled the tools from, but yes, it’s definitely Pilates-informed of how I get their core firing back again, and I would be… you would be absolutely shocked, at the number of people who do work out tons, or do Pilates tons, or… and I own a Pilates studio, okay? I’m very openly admitting that, a ton of people are doing these things that are quote-unquote good for their course. Sit-ups, going to the gym, doing this.Thing, and they actually aren’t three-dimensionally training that area due to, again, these huge, long fascial chains that are just… they’re just not trained how they should be, and what I mean by that is we are so sedentary as a population, this, like, in 2026, like, we’ve never, ever, ever been more sedentary in our whole. like, lives, and we… these fascial chains, we are meant to be up and out, and, like, walking tons, and hanging off trees, and picking things up, and, like, we’re meant to be doing huge movements, and we don’t. We sit in chairs, and then we stand up, and we’re like, I’m gonna go to the gym, and we get on a bike, and we do this much range of motion, and then we do some bicep curls, and do this tiny bit of range of motion. We don’t do huge ranges of notion. things that we should be doing with… to keep that, again, those long swaths of fascia really healthy. And so that’s what ends up happening, because when we do those huge ranges of motions in all those different ranges of motion, like, we have many that we can access.And when we miss a lot of those, those huge swaths don’t get trained, and that’s why the core ends up so weak. And to your point about the psoas earlier, the psoas gets, you know, tight in the wrong ways, and we get weak as a result. But yeah, if I could just say back to… Pilates is not synonymous with a good core, and I think every single person listening should have a good, proper core evaluation, and that’s actually one of the things I’m working on, is for people to be able to self-evaluate properly their core, and their breathing mechanics on how to undo this for themselves, because I’ve done it now with so many people, and it’s been so changing, and it seems so easy to me, it’s almost like it’s like my side gig, because I do, like, oh, I’ll run your labs, and your gut health, and this, but this… it makes… You know, it makes such a huge difference that people… we should all be, you know, educated in looking at this. Dr. Deb Muth 32:14Yeah, so since we’re talking about core, let’s kind of talk about gut health. That seems to be something that you’ve dealt with before. So when we’re talking about people who have bloating and brain fog and low energy, which is half the population, if not more these days, right? What are you seeing as the most common underlying patterns from a physical standpoint, if not a, you know, an infectious standpoint as well? Shalinibhat 32:42I mean, from physicality alone, I would say, again, this… prescriptive, chronic, like, diagnosis of sedentation. Like, I… I can’t… I cannot say enough, like, if you go to work from 9 to 5, and then you go on your spin bike for half an hour in the day, and then sit and watch Netflix, I know… like, and I mean this from the nicest place, I know the person’s intention is correct, like, I know that they really are, like, yep, tick mark, did my workout today. I love that for you. Also, like, that is not an active person. Like, that’s not. Like, you know, 10,000 steps or, like, aiming to be mobile, like, moving as much as humanly possible in a day, like, really, that’s the goal. How much can you possibly move in a day? Because that is where a huge piece… bloating, brain fog, and low energy, let’s just cut to the chase. Hydration and lack of circulation, that’s just, like.Basically, here we go. So that’s… that’s one and two, right? So let’s just talk about move as much as humanly possible, because A, you’re going to move that gas, so trapped gas is going to move, you’re going to actually help digestion and peristalsis, you’re going to help your blood sugar. Then, when we’re talking about brain fog, you need, you know, circular… and again, you and I know there could be many issues, but let’s… let’s stay very high level, because you asked physicality. Moving tons is going to help that, too. Oxygenating those tissues, right? Again, breathing, right? So those breathing mechanics we talked about, our breathing mechanics are going to be better when we’re standing up than if we’re just sitting… like, collapsed, right? So, again, moving more is the ultimate prescription that I would give for every single thing that you just mentioned, energy included, because almost like, you know when you nap in the afternoon and you wake up, you feel less energy? That’s sort of where I think of, like, you know, non-moving, right? And you gotta… yes, there’s gonna be a point to everyone listening who’s like, I can’t even move that much, my weather sucks, or like, whatever.Just walk around your office, like, you know, make a… you’ve got to put the timer. Unfortunately, in the world we live in, we have to use timers, right? Because we’re just going to be, you know, not able to do that. The second thing I would say is even just in that sense of physicality is meet, which I’m sure you know about non-exercise activity time, right? Which is just standing more. So, even just setting your your phone timer for every 20 minutes, because every 20 minutes is when you know, your body’s going to… or every 15-20 minutes, A, it’s when your fascia just goes, oh, okay, you’re kind of not moving, so I’m just gonna, like, I’m just gonna sort of relax here, and that’s where it loses resilience. So that’s something called tissue creep. So that’s why, if you sat all day long, you were kind of semi-stretching it and, like, in a seated position, and that’s why when you then are at home showering, you go to reach for your razor, and you’re like. My god, I just, like, put my back out. It wasn’t that you went to go pick up a razor, it was that all day. Dr. Deb Muth 35:41long. Shalinibhat 35:41That tissue was semi-stretched in this one, you know, sedentary range of motion, for example, and that’s something called tissue creep. And when we have tissue creep, we are so prone to injury in that. So when you stand up every 15-20 minutes, you bring that recoil back to that fascia. So, like I said, we have that flexibility to it, and we have that tensile strength to it, and actually just standing up and sitting back down. will bring both of those qualities back to it, because it will hydrate it. So that’s another thing that, I think people could incorporate more in their day, is that non-exercise activity time called MEAT. That would be my answer for your physicality questions. Dr. Deb Muth 36:19I love that. I remember when I learned about the atomic habits, and I was reading that book, and one of the things that he had talked about was moving more, right? And how do we create these habits? And one of the things that he did was, every time he went to the bathroom, he would do 3 wall push-ups, 3 squats. And so, as you got up every day, you know, multiple times you get up to go, by the end of the day, you had a complete workout in, and you didn’t really even have to overexert yourself, you were just moving your body more, and I think we think of workout as, I have to go to the gym, I have to spend a half hour, 45 minutes there, I have to sweat, it has to be all at one time, and it really doesn’t have to be that way. It can be these small movements throughout the whole day, and by the end of the day, you’ve had your whole workout in. And for those people who are listening to us going, I don’t have time for a workout. I just gave you the time for the workout. Shalinibhat 37:15Yeah, exactly. And just one thing to add to that, only because you said squats and push-ups, I love that, but squats and push-ups are in the exact same range of motion as, cycling and running. So I think that… I think we actually spend too much time in that plane of motion, so if everyone thinks of sitting, standing, cycling, running, squatting, push-ups, they’re all in the same range of motion. We actually all need way more Twisting, like, huge twisting ranges of motion. Dr. Deb Muth 37:43And… Shalinibhat 37:44Need side bending. So if we can include, you know, jumping jacks, that’d be the side bending kind of thing, or side stretching, kind of think on that plane of motion, and big, huge twisting motions, those are two categories of planes of motion that we’re missing, so I would, like, just if someone thinks of, like, what do I do all day? Oh yeah, I do bicep curls, and I do push-ups, and I do squats, and I do lunges, and I… cycling, you are literally working on a range of motion, and, you know, again, back to that, how do we create fashion resilience? Dr. Deb Muth 38:18One Shalinibhat 38:19I’m twisting and side bending as well, those types of movements in our day, big time. Dr. Deb Muth 38:24I love that. That is… that is so great. I love that. So, when we put all of this together, you’re… you’re doing some acupuncture, you’re doing some chiropractic, some Pilates, some fascial release, and… and obviously functional medicine together, too. What does a coordinated, week-to-week look like for somebody who’s taking on all of these modalities to fix their chronic pain, or just to make their body move better? Shalinibhat 38:52Kind of what I said at the top of the call, meet yourself where you’re at, and look for results in what moves the needle for you. So let’s say you did go to a Pilates class, and you’re like, wait, I’m, like, actually feeling so much more energized in my, you know, from the twisting I did in this class, my digestion’s feeling a little bit better. Awesome, double down, go again.If you went for a treatment, and you were like, you know what? That fascial release made my back finally feel open, and I’m feeling great, and that’s made my mood lighter, and my sleep got better, amazing, go again. If you went to acupuncture and, you know, you felt that the needles, like, gave you this sense of calm and a nervous system reset, and that helped your digestion and your sleep, awesome, go back to it. Whatever, like, you can get those huge bucket you know, wins in any type of modality you’re going to… to start, you just gotta start it and notice whether there was a shift for you. If you went to a practitioner and you were like, then that’s not the person for you, and that’s not… and I should say the person, maybe, because maybe that modality is for you, but it was just the person. But do more stuff that makes you feel good. So, and I say that because I’ve had patients that are like, oh, I went to this person for 10 years, yeah, I felt okay, it was fine, they told me to come back. I don’t know, they told me to do this. Like, seek results, because, like, I’m a results-oriented person. When you come to see me.like, if I haven’t changed… if I haven’t made a huge difference in one session with you, like, please don’t come back. Like, you know, be like, that didn’t work for me, right? Dr. Deb Muth 40:26Number 7. Shalinibhat 40:26Reason it was complicated, and I explained to you why… like, if someone’s in major acute pain, and you can explain, this isn’t going to be the one-shot thing right now. Right. You know, and there are, like, listen to your practitioner like that, but you want to find a personal fit, first of all. It’s really important when we’re talking about these types of modalities, whether it’s acupuncture or hands-on care, fascial release, Pilates, you need to find someone who’s the right fit for you, because it has to be motivating and exciting, and you want to be able to want to go back. So, if you’re like, I don’t know, my friend kind of, like, goes, and like, they said I should go back next week. If that’s your energy going into it, you’re not going to get the best, most out of it, right? So just do whatever it is that, you know, I’m somebody… if I hear of someone through the grapevine with… through three people, that’s my thing. If three people say, so-and-so’s awesome, I’ll go try them. And then how I built my practice, I kept trying all these people that people would refer, and I would take the best bits of what they did through treatment and stuff, and I’d be like, okay, and I slowly started incorporating that into what I do as a clinician. And I would say the same for… not that you guys would be amassing it to do it as a clinician, but same thing when you go to seek any type of care, number one, make sure you have some type of a positive feeling when you’re coming out. Number two, don’t be… like, go back again. All of these things are meant to be compounded, so, you know, whether you decide to yourself, I’m going to do acupuncture once a month, then I’m gonna do fascial release twice a month, then I’m gonna do Pilates twice a month, and then I’m gonna make sure I get my walks in every single day, and I’m, you know, doing my breathwork and my relaxation techniques, and I’m just gonna prioritize my nutrition, drink my water, and go to sleep on time. Like, hello, you’ve already. Dr. Deb Muth 42:05I’m gonna leave our… Shalinibhat 42:07you’ve already done, you know, you’re gonna be better for it. So, put into your schedule whatever fits, and don’t make it overwhelming, because if something’s overwhelming, you’re also not going to do it, and then it’s not going to work either. Dr. Deb Muth 42:18Absolutely. This is a great conversation, I love this. I have one last question for you, and I ask this question of all of my guests. If you could change one thing in healthcare today, what would it be? Shalinibhat 42:31Oh my god. That’s such a good question. I… does it have to be realistic? Dr. Deb Muth 42:41It does not. Shalinibhat 42:43I would put someone with expertise like myself, and I’m not saying this, like, oh, I’m so good, like, just somebody with outer knowledge of the body and inner knowledge of the body from a gray area functional perspective in acute care. And what I mean by that is for example, that patient I gave earlier that went to the hospital with acute abdominal… within quotation marks, acute abdominal pain, seeking, like, is this appendicitis? If that person sought somebody who… or… That person sat and waited in the, you know. at ER for so long because they’re not bleeding from the head, you know what I mean? Right. And then you put a functional person in there, not only are they going to say, hey, you want to know what this is? That makes that patient feel great, because they feel heard, they feel seen, they now have an answer for what’s going on, and… they didn’t have to clog up the system. I think there’s a lot of functional, from an MSK perspective, people in the ER, and I think there’s a lot of functional you know, things that you and I would see in our practice in the ER. And I wish people were more equipped with the type of tools you and I might have that we take Granted, because if you or I have a symptom… I remember one day, actually, I had this… such an acute neck pain all of a sudden, and I knew exactly what it was, and I knew exactly what to do to, like, how… like, how to move, and how to lie, and what at that moment, and I said to myself, I said to my husband, I said, if I was a layperson right now, I would think death was on my door, I would make you run me to the ER right now in an ambulance, like, I would call an ambulance because of how I felt, but because I actually knew what it was, A, you have that locus of control. You’re like, oh, okay, I’ve seen this before, I’ve treated this before, I know how to deal with it. Okay, it’s gonna be 48 hours, here’s how it’s gonna start, like, here’s the position I need need to be in, blah blah blah.But if you don’t know that, that’s highly alarming. And so, the second… You didn’t ask me for two things, but I’m giving you two things anyways. That’s okay. The thing would be making sure that in schools, all of the children, all of the teenagers are extremely equipped with their own understanding of the body and understanding of tools available to them Should non-emergent things be happening to them that they could empoweringly address themselves. Dr. Deb Muth 45:12I love that, that’s great. I think you’re right, like, we’ve taken so much of how the body functions away from the general population of knowledge and made it so complicated that people can’t help themselves, and they’re so fearful of Any little thing that happens in the body. And I guess rightfully so, you know, there’s a lot of terrible things that can happen, and everybody’s afraid of the worst thing possibly happening, but I think if we could give power back to people so they understood their bodies. That would make all the difference in the world between them being a nervous wreck about something and waiting to see the doctor versus, I can treat this myself, and it’ll be better, and it’s okay. Because I think we’re… we’ve lost a lot of that magic of, folk medicine, so to speak, or the things we pass down from family generations, but we were able to treat a lot of things back then and make people not afraid of it, and we need to go back to learning that. Shalinibhat 46:10We do, and I think the other, like, one thing that I noticed with my son, even, like, all, like, immediate… like, if he even shows a sign of anything, I’m like, oh, immediately putting him on, like, homeopathic this or whatever, and that’s when to use those things, right? Is, like, at that. Dr. Deb Muth 46:26Right. Shalinibhat 46:26So, like, if we could teach people that, like, you know, the signs of when you’re feeling off, like, and really tune into that, so, like, how do I feel today? Like, what’s norm… what’s my normal, and what’s not, so that they can always catch things really. Dr. Deb Muth 46:41early. Shalinibhat 46:42When you catch things really early, all the amazing things that we have, you know, access to can make such a big difference. It’s when it goes on and on and on and on and on so long that you’re suddenly like, oh my gosh, now what’s wrong with me? And that’s the other thing, is like.That if, again, we could shift the mindset of when something happens to someone, they’re like, the hospital will fix me, the doctor will fix me, something’s wrong with me, you know? Dr. Deb Muth 47:03And then… Shalinibhat 47:04Like, oh, my neck is feeling like this because I XYZ, and now… and you know what? It just needs this. Instead of that, I’m going to take this body that’s kind of not mine and take it to the ER, you know, to fix it. Dr. Deb Muth 47:16written. Shalinibhat 47:17You know, and so that’s, like, yeah, that’s a piece that’s missing, too, that I wish we had. Dr. Deb Muth 47:22Awesome. This has been such a great conversation. Thanks for joining me. Is there any last comments or things you want to share with our audience today? Shalinibhat 47:31Yeah, I mean, you guys can come find me. I actually, write a newsletter myself, not through AI, and so if you liked learning these little nuggets from me, here on this podcast, I just talk like this, and this is what my newsletter sounds like, is like you’re chatting with me. So you can head over to my Instagram or my website and join, my newsletter list, and yeah, otherwise you can join me on my social channels, which I’m sure you’re gonna link here. And, yeah, it was really nice to meet you, and thank you for all the work that you do, because I know it’s hard doing the work that we do, and, you know, trying to hold the line for the people that really do need us, so I always, you know, just want to say thank you for that, too, and thank you for having me today. Dr. Deb Muth 48:16Oh, thank you, it’s been a great pleasure. Shalinibhat 48:18Yeah! Dr. Deb Muth 48:21Oh, goose this. Thank you for joining me today on Let’s Talk Wellness Now. If this episode gave you clarity about why your symptoms might be connected, or how, and how they’re integrated in root care cause. and you feel like this could help, share it with someone who needs to hear this. To learn more about Dr. Bhat and the Movement Boutique, you can look them up online or on social, and check out their links below. Until next time, I’m Dr. Deb. Remember that your recovery is a process, not a race. Be well, and I’ll see you next time.The post Episode 271 – The Tissue Saving Your Body (Or Making You Stiff): The Fascia Explanation first appeared on Let's Talk Wellness Now.
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The Great Fall of 2026 has happened, but to the wrong host. We talk quite a lot about AI and how stupid and annoying it is to use, as well as how useful it can be. We've got plenty of listeners getting injured, a good few sensibly ignoring them, and our one-woman bullshit generator is very much back on form.
Hope Beryl-Green is an international force for freedom and a resilient advocate for women. A survivor of sex slavery and MK Ultra, Hope was born into captivity and endured unimaginable abuse until her rescue at the age of 30. Today, she stands as a passionate abolitionist, fearlessly exposing the hidden realities of global sex trafficking and mind control.Keep up with Hope Hope's Websitehttps://www.hopeberylgreen.com/ To Tell the Truth (Hopes Book on Amazon): https://a.co/d/09DlBmld Hope's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/17e3bT... Hope's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hopeberylgr... Hope's X: https://x.com/hgreen8385?s=21 Hope's YouTube: / @epsteinsurvivor Hope's Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hopeberylgree... We will keep an eye out for the link for the trailer.Support this Platform: We Need to TalkJoin this channel to get access to perks: / @weneed2talktv FIRE SESSIONS (LIVE PRAYER ONCE A MONTH) https://www.skool.com/we-need-to-comm...Financially Support this Podcast:$TheAzonwusPayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted...Zelle: fwdprodinc@gmail.com Social media: Wordsbyezekiel Weneed2tlkpodcastListen to all podcast episodes:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0TKwMpq...FREEDOM GUIDEhttps://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/2...Join Band of Brothers Men's Grouphttps://bandofbrothersintl.org/Book Us for an Event: http://www.wordsbyezekiel.com/bookeze...Merch: Wordsbyezekiel.com/shop Submit Your Story for a chance to feature - Email 5-10 min VIDEO LINK to: TheAzonwus@gmail.com05:10 - Welcome & Introduction to Hope Beryl Green07:12 - Born into Trafficking & MK Ultra Programming08:25 - How Satanists Infiltrate the Church 09:52 - MK Ultra Goal: Take Down Nations & the Church from Within12:11 - Programmed Around Jesus to Twist Scripture & Create Division15:41 - Born via DNA Breeding Programs & Epstein Connection18:47 - Infiltrating the Church: Causing Division & Twisting the Gospel24:09 - Legalism, Comfort, & the Perverted Mercy Culture in the Church31:55 - Righteous Anger & Protecting God's Sheep (David & Goliath Example)38:12 - Satan & Demons Are Legalists – The Power of Grace43:14 - Torture Tactics & Identity Destruction47:19 - Meeting Jeffrey Epstein at Age 5 – Child Trafficking & DNA Experiments53:57 - The Root: Pride, Control & Satanic Worship57:40 - True vs. False Forgiveness (No More Revictimization)1:01:59 - Her Books: To Tell the Truth & From Hell to Hope1:05:18 - How Programming Mirrors Church Legalism1:09:51 - Glimmers of Hope During Captivity (Yellow Flower & Butterfly)1:12:10 - Living a Double Life: School, Church, Cheerleader by Day1:16:15 - Sent to Infiltrate a Christian Ministry – But God Won1:19:57 - "I Asked Thousands of People to Help You" – The Power of Saying Yes1:24:13 - Marriage & Healing After Trauma1:28:05 - Hardest Thing to Heal: Accepting God's Love & Resting in Grace1:31:58 - Closing Prayer for the Church & Survivors
Jaq Greenspon Interview starts at 00:02:39"I Love That" starts at 00:35:26Chapter Nine of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 00:41:56 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDAmerican Classic (Trailer): https://youtu.be/xKFYRiNB6Pc"The Thursday Murder Club": https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2201645/richard-osman/Check out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
In Matthew 12:9–30, we reach a major turning point in Jesus' ministry. After performing undeniable miracles, including casting out a demon that caused blindness and muteness, the religious leaders refused to accept the truth. Instead, they twist it, claiming that Jesus is operating by the power of Satan. This is more than unbelief. This is the deliberate distortion of truth to fit a narrative. In this teaching, we break down how truth is not always rejected outright but is often reinterpreted, reframed, and twisted to avoid submitting to it. The Pharisees could not deny the evidence, so they redefined it. We also examine Jesus' powerful response: a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, and His works prove that the Kingdom of God had come upon them. This moment ultimately leads to the national rejection of the Messiah and the warning about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. This message is not just historical. It is happening today. Truth is still being twisted. Good is still being called evil. The question is… will we recognize it? #BibleStudy #Matthew12 #JesusChrist #Truth #EndTimes #LastDays #Discernment #SpiritualWarfare #KingdomOfGod #BibleTeaching #ProphecyUpdate #StandForTruth
You can use the words to confuse the listener. How many chances are you going to get to make it clear what is true. You running out. Stop twisting and recreating the meaning.
Janeen Puente Interview starts at 00:04:33"I Love That" starts at 00:26:22Chapter Two of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 00:39:00 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDFackham Hall: https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/fackham-hallYoung Sherlock: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.28418d74-d40a-46d7-a1f3-e00a8708aa57Check out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
Hour 3: Love at 5 would be the wrong pick for Harbaugh and the Giants and fans would not be happy with the pick. People are twisting Juan Soto's answer about talking to his teammates and trying to make a story out of nothing.
There is no doubt we live in a world of children's music that is leaning heavily toward emotional support and wellbeing… and of course we are. We need to be as children find themselves bombarded by less than exciting world orders… however in amongst this plentiful beautiful messaging, some people find a new way of promoting well being, safety and positivity, excuse the pun. Todays guest together with her incredible, and I mean, incredible gang of musicians find safety, solace and confidence in science. Twisting scientific tales and knowledge into a world of love, mystery, friendship and excitement for the day ahead, She is a performer whose music is a direct tunnel into not only her passions but her great love and respect for children. The post The endless energy of Marsha appeared first on Benny Time.
When you look at the top restaurants around the world, no matter what cuisine they may focus on, there's one commonality they all share, and that's deep relationships with those who grow and raise the very best ingredients. It's the same in beer—you can't be the best at what you do without the meaningful, personal, financial, and long-standing relationships that ensure the brewery has access to the very best quality ingredients. These relationships don't materialize overnight, but for Firestone Walker, they're the product of 30 years of work. In this series, we highlight a number of these crucial growers, brokers, and processors who have played a role in the world-class beer that Firestone Walker makes. *Episode 2: Deep Roots & Twisting Bines * One of the keys to maintaining a consistent supply of the very best hops is long term relationships and deep commitment paired with the very best analytical science and process improvement, and the purpose of this series is to explore just what that means with some of the key players in this story of ingredient quality. In this episode, Firestone Walker Head Brewer Dustin Kral and Bud Hollingbery of hops broker Hollingbery and Son talk about the way that Hollingbery has worked closely with Firestone Walker for decades now to source and process hops, how current dynamics in the brewing and hops industries are impacting hops growers, and a lot more. Over the years, Bud has seen some remarkable change in the hop industry, and he's not afraid to tell you exactly what he thinks. Intro music: VintageGroove / Pond5
What a thrill to meet the one and only Peter Criss! I'd never met or interviewed him before, and I found him great to talk with! His new solo album is out, and it's fantastic. The music covers the gamut of old rock n' roll, to the blues, to 50's rock, and much more. It's honestly one of the most diverse albums I've heard in a long time. Peter talked to me about the album and the many players on it. This record has been in the works for some time, so it's great that it's out. We also discussed coming back to Detroit Rock City. He's been in town for a few days, taking in everything the city has to offer, including museums and more. I can't say enough about how cool it was of Peter to come by the station. A special thank you to his wife GiGi, and my friends Photo Joe and Nick from Rock City Record Company, where Peter will be signing albums and more on April 24th/25th. Spencer Charnas from Ice Nine Kills was also kind enough to come by the station a week ago. He was in town for Astronomicon and swung by to talk about that and lots more. Being a huge horror movie fan, we did talk about that genre. One of their songs, Twisting the KNife is used in Scream 7. We also talked about his dad's 80s band, Grave Diggler. You need to hear about that, then punch them up on the internet. Spencer told me about opening for Metallica, a possible paranormal sighting in Seattle, and more. I always enjoy talking with Spencer!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode Dr. Hugo Morales Briceno and Dr. Ai Huey Tan discuss how to approach deafness-dystonia syndrome and its etiological differential diagnoses. Read the discussed case.
Explore one of Japan's strangest and most unsettling urban legends in this episode of Supernatural Japan. We dive into the eerie mystery of the Kunekune—a distant, white, writhing figure said to appear in open fields on hot summer days. What happens if you stare too long? Is it a spirit, a psychological phenomenon, or something far more dangerous? Blending folklore, modern encounters, and cultural context, this episode uncovers the chilling truth behind the Kunekune legend in Japan. Get lots of Premium and Exclusive Content and Ad-free Episodes! Premium membership: @patreon Support on: @BuyMeACoffee Website: supernaturaljapan.com Connect with Supernatural Japan: Instagram: @supernaturaljapan Facebook: @SupernaturalJapan BlueSky: @MadForMaple X: @MadForMaple YouTube: @BusanKevin Email: supernaturaljapan@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On the latest episode of the podcast, a chat with magician Fancy Nancy about giving back with magic ... and then Chapter Seven of "Twisting the Aces." Nancy Anderson Interview starts at 00:03:33"I Love That" starts at 00:46:58Chapter Seven of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 01:03:24 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDThe Making of "The Sting": https://youtu.be/ZibQa4AsbCAMortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing: https://tubitv.com/series/300019258/mortimer-and-whitehouse-gone-fishingCheck out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
The Art of Twisting Scripture by Pastor Josh Robinson.Recorded April 12, 2026.
The Counter Momentum of Spin, with Dr. Franco Musio – Since our withdrawal from the “agreement,” Iran had enriched their uranium to 60% (exceeding 400Kg) by April 2021, installed and used advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium, and ceased complying with the “additional protocol” providing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) greater access for monitoring its facilities...
We dig deep into the Magic Castle's Junior Society ... and then Eli realizes he's currently the ONLY suspect in the murder of Mason Drexel. Junior Society Interview starts at 00:01:29"I Love That" starts at 00:37:33Chapter Six of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 00:47:50 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDThe Magic Castle Junior Society: https://www.magiccastle.com/junior-academy/The Personals (Full Movie): https://youtu.be/xQ4mAXAxwFgTruth and Treason (Trailer): https://youtu.be/UPepoAJLsTMCheck out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Governor Greg Abbott achieves new heights of hypocrisy in his attempt to use sexual abuse revelations about Cesar Chavez to smear all progressives and unions, while continuing to turn a blind eye to Donald Trump's copious appearances in the Epstein files: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/18/cesar-chavez-day-texas-fallout-sexual-abuse-allegations/Twisting logic to claim a victory from the chaos of the March 3 primary, Dallas County Republican Party Chair Allen West announces that his party will return to countywide voting for the May 26 runoff: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/county-gop-texas-will-switch-voting-rules-runoff-primary-day-chaos-rcna264075...Republican attempts to undermine voter confidence failed spectacularly in the primary - notably there was bigger Democratic turnout than that for the GOP in four of the five newly-gerrymandered districts from Trump's mid-term redistricting scam: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/post-gop-gerrymandering-heres-what-voter-turnout-looked-like-in-the-texas-primaries/...All of this is part of a broad, system-wide phase of incompetence, including the strange press for the SAVE America Act and Trump's failure pick between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton for endorsement: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5787536-tillis-frustrated-republican-strategy/This weekend sees county-level Democratic Party conventions across the state - "the most important political event you're ignoring": https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/the-most-important-political-event...Find your county convention, RSVP and submit resolution ideas here: https://texasdemocraticconvention.com/Progress Texas is the official media partner of the Harris County Democratic Convention this weekend! Come see us on Saturday to say hi, grab some merch, and take part in our day-long podcast recording session: https://www.harrisdemconvention.com/Progress Texas is expanding into both broadcast radio - including a new partnership with KPFT-FM in Houston - and into Spanish language media! Make a tax-deductible contribution to our radio initiative HERE, and to our Spanish expansion HERE.Find our web store and other ways to support our important work at https://progresstexas.org.
My chat this week is with Brooklyn -based bespoke shoemaker, educator, and artist Anne Marika Verploegh Chassé, aka STIEFELwerk. Two decades ago, Marika came at shoemaking from a fine arts background, which shouldn't surprise anyone who's seen her work. After years learning the craft under many of the great shoe and bookmaking teachers, today Marika focuses on the use of veg-tan leather—often from the wholly unique Hudson Valley tannery Pergamena—to create hugely intriguing and distinctive custom, filly handmade footwear from her Brooklyn apartment-turned-workshop. In the chat, we get into Marika showing up at her first-ever shoemaking with her entire arm in a cast; the critical importance of the shoemaking community exchanging knowledge that ISN'T written in books; her own teaching at RISD, Parson, and FIT and why it's allowed her to keep making shoes; the joy of carving her own lasts; and the importance of always saying yes, even when it really feels like you should say no. Here's Marika, on the Shoecast. https://www.stiefelwerk.nyc/ Support the Shoecast, get full bonus episode access, and join the most interesting shoe-and-boot-loving community on the internet with a Stitchdown Premium membershiphttps://www.stitchdown.com/join-stitchdown-premium/A website. We have one.https://www.stitchdown.com/We'd better see you at Stitchdown Chicago 2026—the world's fair of shoes and boots and leather and more—Nov 6-7 at Artifact Events.https://www.stitchdownbootcamp.com/
Full-time physician and part-time magician Dr. Raj Madhok talks about the value of keeping work and magic separate ... and then things continue to heat up for Eli at The Magic Castle. Raj Madhok Interview starts at 00:01:30"I Love That" starts at 00:39:41Chapter Five of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 00:48:07 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDChad Powers Trailer: https://youtu.be/_nFZMD8FMM0The Marx Brothers Council Podcast: https://www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/A Couple of Grouchos: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/the-podcast/episode-111-a-couple-of-grouchos-sitting-around-chattingCheck out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
J. M. Pendleton preached in Kentucky during a very contentious age both theologically and in terms of the contentious issue of slavery. Thanks to Justin Scott Rea for reading this sermon! Make sure to check out our Patreon!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/revived-thoughts6762/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Season 31, Episode 14 – Twisting The KnifeHosted by: DONMEGAAnother week, another mountain of entertainment headlines, and DONMEGA is here to sort through it all on Am I On The Air?. This episode covers the biggest movie and TV news from February 25 through March 3, delivering Episode #221 on the PopCulturePros Network. For a show that's been around as long as this one has, you'd think Hollywood might eventually slow down… but clearly nobody told them.The movie side of things is led by the highly anticipated return of Ghostface in Scream 7. DONMEGA breaks down the latest chapter in the legendary horror franchise, looking at how the series continues to honor its legacy while trying to keep things fresh for a new generation of horror fans. Is the knife still sharp after all these years, or is Ghostface just working overtime at this point? He also takes a look at the Prime Video action release The Bluff, digging into the performances, the action, and whether this streaming debut is worth carving out some time for.TV is just as busy this week. HBO rolls out its new original series DTF St. Louis, and DONMEGA gives his first impressions on the show's tone, style, and the kind of audience it might attract. Meanwhile, the long-awaited return of Scrubs finally brings the beloved medical comedy back for a new chapter, raising the obvious question: can lightning strike twice in Sacred Heart? On top of that, the MonsterVerse keeps expanding as Monarch: Legacy of Monsters returns for Season 2, continuing to build out the giant-creature chaos on the small screen.And because Hollywood never sleeps, the episode also tackles a massive industry story — the reported Paramount buyout of Warner Bros. DONMEGA dives into what a potential merger of that size could mean for studios, streaming platforms, and the overall future of entertainment. It's the kind of headline that could reshape the business… or just give executives new logos to print on coffee mugs.Movies, TV premieres, industry drama, and the usual dose of veteran insight and sarcasm — Twisting The Knife keeps Am I On The Air? doing what it's done for years: cutting through the noise so you know what's actually worth paying attention to.
Send a textAm I On The Air Season 31, Episode 14 – “Twisting The Knife” Hosted by: DONMEGAThis week on Am I On The Air, DONMEGA breaks down the latest entertainment news from February 25th through March 3rd, covering major movie releases, big TV premieres, and some significant industry shake-ups.On the movie side, the spotlight is on the highly anticipated “Scream 7.” DONMEGA dives into the latest installment of the iconic horror franchise, discussing how it continues the legacy of Ghostface while evolving the series for a new generation. We also take a look at the new Prime Video streaming release “The Bluff,” breaking down the action, performances, and whether it's worth adding to your watchlist.Over on the TV side, there's a lot happening this week. HBO debuts its new original series “DTF St. Louis,” and we break down first impressions and what kind of audience it's likely to find. Meanwhile, the long-awaited “Scrubs” revival has finally arrived, bringing back the beloved medical comedy for a new chapter. We also check in on “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” Season 2, continuing the expansion of the MonsterVerse on the small screen.Beyond the shows and movies, the episode also tackles a major industry headline as we discuss the reported Paramount buyout of Warner Bros, exploring what the potential merger could mean for studios, streaming services, and the future of entertainment.With reviews, reactions, and plenty of additional headlines, Twisting The Knife delivers another jam-packed week of movie and TV talk.
Send a textMariko Sato — From Searching to FreedomLong before discovering the Taubman Approach, Mariko Sato was already searching.As an accomplished concert artist and professor, she had built an international career. Yet she continued asking deeper questions:How can I play more efficiently? More expressively? Without fatigue or injury?The turning point came not in her own playing — but in her son's.After developing tendonitis from over-practicing, her son sought help from teachers, doctors, and specialists. Nothing offered lasting recovery. Then he discovered the Taubman Approach at the Golandsky Institute in New York. Under the guidance of Edna Golandsky — and with a pivotal lesson from Dorothea Taubman herself — he fully recovered and completed his master's degree injury-free.For Mariko, this felt miraculous.Curiosity turned into commitment. In the late 1990s, she attended the Taubman Summer Symposium — and everything changed.Over nearly 30 years of study with mentors including Mary Moran, Edna Golandsky, Bob Durso, and John Bloomfield, Mariko refined her understanding of coordinated movement at the piano. She became an Associate Faculty Member and Master Teacher with the Golandsky Institute — one of only three certified Taubman teachers in Canada, and the only one at the master level.In this episode, Mariko shares:How forearm rotation replaced stretching and tensionWhy pressing into the keys creates fatigue and sound distortionHow small hands and physical “limitations” can become strengthsThe transformation that allowed her to perform repertoire she once avoidedWhy comparison — twisted vs. untwisted, pressed vs. released — is the key to learningShe speaks candidly about childhood discouragement — being told her hands were not suited for a professional career — and how understanding coordinated movement allowed her body to “become piano hands.”Through the Taubman Approach, she not only solved technical problems. She gained the ability to analyze and solve them independently.Her story is not about quick fixes. It is about refinement, logic, and lived experience.After three decades of study, she describes the work not as static doctrine, but as a living research community — one that continues to evolve, deepen, and empower pianists to play with freedom and confidence.For anyone navigating tension, injury, doubt, or physical limitation — this conversation offers clarity, hope, and practical direction.About Mariko SatoMariko Sato is a Tokyo-born concert pianist, professor, and Master Teacher of the Taubman Approach based in Montréal. She has performed internationally across three continents and contributed to six CD recordings. A longtime faculty member at Université Laval and the Cégep régional de Lanaudière, she has studied the Taubman Approach since 1995 and has taught it since 2006. She serves as an Associate Faculty Member at the Golandsky Institute and specializes in injury prevention, coordinated movement, and sustainable piano technique.Episode Themes • Injury recovery and tendonitis • Efficient forearm rotation • Twisting vs. coordinated alignment • Small hands and physical myths • The Taubman community and ongoing researchThe Golandsky Institute's mission is to provide cutting-edge instruction to pianists based on the groundbreaking work of Dorothy Taubman. This knowledge can help them overcome technical and musical challenges, cure and prevent playing-related injuries, and lead them to achieve their highest level of artistic excellence.Please visit our website at: www.golandskyinstitute.org.
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Brent Geris takes us through the audition process at The Magic Castle ... and Eli's evening at The Castle takes another surprising turn. Brent Geris Interview starts at 00:03:07"I Love That" starts at 00:47:33Chapter Four of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 00:59:59 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDMagic Apple Website: https://themagicapple.com/Brent on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magicapplestore/Nichols and May on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqpKhyb3LppeCKGs-Uy1vgANichols and May at Work: https://youtu.be/2p-lVDmNWYMDebbie Downer at Disneyworld: https://youtu.be/TfE93xON8jkCheck out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
Jesus warned about those who cause children to stumble.Using Scripture to justify irreversible gender procedures for minors isn't love, it's false teaching with real consequences.
While in Carlisle's remote and secluded haven, someone isknocking at the door within a mirror. What danger will come if the PARCS agents answer it? ---News, artwork, and more at PowerWordCrit.comRate us on Spotify and Apple PodcastsContact us on Facebook, X/Twitter, or at PowerWordCrit@gmail.com---Theme music arranged by Corrin Sparks.Background music used under the standard-license from filmmusic.io. "Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod"Myst on the Moor" by Kevin MacLeod"Phantom from Space" by Kevin MacLeod"Twisting" by Kevin MacLeod
Twisting Dough Makes Pretzels, Twisting Truth Makes Devils by Bishop Joaquin G. Molina
Author/Editor/Director Roger Nygard talks about magic and comedy and how to get better at both ... and then Eli's night at The Magic Castle continues. Roger Nygard Interview starts at 00:02:53"I Love That" starts at 00:46:34Chapter Three of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 00:59:26 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDRoger Nygard website: http://rogernygard.com/Lonesome Dove Trailer: https://youtu.be/bK3N5UXv4vYPaula Poundstone Routine: https://youtu.be/2rbj13q0_CcCheck out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
The Danger of Cultural Scripture Twisting #RTTBROS #Nightlight"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." — 2 Timothy 3:16-17You know, I had an experience a few days ago that's been weighing on my heart, and I think it's something we all need to wrestle with in our walk with the Lord. I came across a teaching online about Bathsheba, and it got me thinking about how we handle God's Word when it makes us uncomfortable.Now, the person teaching was arguing that Bathsheba was completely innocent, just a victim of David's power and manipulation. And I understand where that's coming from, I really do. We live in a time when we're more aware than ever of how people, especially women, have been abused and silenced. That's a good thing. But here's where I got concerned, the argument wasn't based on what Scripture actually says. It was based on what we think should have happened, filtered through our modern understanding of power dynamics and victimhood.When I pointed out that the Bible doesn't clearly tell us whether Bathsheba went willingly or was coerced, well, let's just say I stirred up a hornet's nest. About thirty or forty people jumped into the comments, some saying I was an idiot for even suggesting she might have had a choice, others agreeing with me. But that's not really my point here.My concern isn't whether you think Bathsheba was innocent or guilty. My concern is that we're making theological decisions based on conjecture instead of what the text actually says. The Scripture tells us "David sent for her," and then adultery happened. That's what we know. Everything else is us filling in the blanks with our own assumptions, and those assumptions are heavily influenced by the culture we're swimming in right now.You see, this isn't a new problem. Fifty years ago, the church had its own cultural lens it was looking through, maybe a legalistic one that was too quick to blame and too slow to show grace. Today we've got a different lens, one that's sometimes so concerned with identifying victims that we're unwilling to let Scripture speak uncomfortable truths. Both are wrong because both put culture above Scripture.Here's what I've learned, and I'm too soon old and too late smart on this one, we have to be willing to interpret Scripture exactly as it says, even when it makes us squirm. Even when it doesn't fit our narrative about who the good guys and bad guys are. The Bible says in Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." That includes everyone, regardless of their circumstances, regardless of whether they've been victimized or privileged.Now, don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying we shouldn't have compassion for people who've been hurt. I'm not saying we shouldn't be aware of power imbalances and abuse. What I am saying is that our theology can't be built on what we wish the Bible said. It has to be built on what it actually says.Think about it this way. When Scripture wants us to know something clearly, it tells us clearly. When Amnon raped Tamar, David's daughter, Scripture doesn't leave us guessing. It says exactly what happened. But with Bathsheba, we're given limited information, and we need to be honest about that. We can have opinions, we can discuss possibilities, but we can't build doctrine on conjecture.The real danger here is that when we let culture interpret Scripture instead of letting Scripture interpret culture, we end up with a Bible that has no power to challenge us, no authority to correct us, no ability to transform us. We end up with a God who always agrees with whatever we already believed anyway. And friends, that's not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's not the God who said through Isaiah, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD"
HaSatan (Did the Devil Make You Do It?) | Part 15Rabbi Steve Berkson offers an in-depth exploration of Scripture to better understand the nature of our adversary, known as HaSatan or the Devil.• Reset / Review• 2 Peter 3• A day is as a thousand years?• He is patient with us • Why is he waiting?• Like a thief in the night?• What is prayer?• What kind of people are we to be?• Where righteousness dwells?• To do good works• Is the New Testament scripture?• Put forth all your effort• Seek peace• What's the Standard?• Struggling with Paul's writings?• The delusion of the lawless?• Grow in the favor of?• Twisting scripture?• Untaught and unstable?• We need to grow up• Unless you fall from your steadfastness• PrayerListen to the Afterburn tomorrowSubscribe to be notified of new content each week.Learn more about MTOI:https://mtoi.orgThe MTOI App https://mtoi.org/download-the-mtoi-appFollow MTOI:https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide https://www.instagram.com/mtoi_worldwidehttps://www.tiktok.com/@mtoi_worldwide Contact MTOI:
Gallup tells us that somewhere between 60%-70% of Americans identify as Christians; that's pretty great. The Barna Group recently produced poll results that showed Idaho was #7 in the nation for the percentage of its citizens who embrace a Christian worldview, 7%. Alabama came in first with 12.6% of their citizens holding a Christian worldview; those are fairly paltry. And those two studies together clarify that while there are tens of millions of American Christians, a much much smaller percentage of them actually embrace a biblical worldview. Why? Well, as this series has asserted, because a massive slab of Christians live programmed by the Matrix. How does that happen? Significantly by Scripture twisting. In this conversational episode Mark and I discuss various kinds of Scripture twisting, some big-picture hermeneutical issues that cause the Bible to be erroneously interpreted, and the distinction between those who intentionally bend the Bible to their aims versus those who just misread it. Come laugh and think with us!
Co-author Michael Varma digs deep into how The Magic Castle runs, with Ben Roman, Director of Club Experience at The Magic Castle, and then we dive into Chapter Two! Ben Roman Interview starts at 00:01:45"I Love That" starts at 00:26:00Chapter Two of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 00:37:19 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDDr. Horrible's Singalong Blog (Episode One): "Good Night and Good Luck" trailer:Check out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
The co-author of the latest Eli Marks book, "Twisting the Aces," stops by to talk about his life-long interest in magic and how he keeps that passion alive while working a normal nine-to-five job. Then we dive into Chapter One of "Twisting the Aces." Michael Varma Interview starts at 00:06:08"I Love That" starts at 00:53:42Chapter One of "Twisting the Aces" starts at 01:05:18 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDMichael Varma website: https://michaelvarma.com/"A Bronx Tale" Trailer: https://youtu.be/z50PjmZYS4A"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" Trailer: https://youtu.be/VW-F1H-NonkCheck out Albert's Bridge Books: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
In this bonus episode of the podcast, long-time collaborators John and Jim discuss John's diverse career, from low-budget filmmaking to his popular "Eli Marks" mystery series. They delve into his writing process, the new Magic Castle-set book Twisting the Aces, and stories from their "Behind the Page" podcast featuring magicians like Teller. LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDMinnesota Mystery Night: https://www.mnmysterynight.com/Check out everything at Albert's Bridge Books: http://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
Master magician Lance Burton returns to share how early inspirations and pivotal mentors shaped his career. He delves into his philosophy on the importance of repetition, learning from failure, and ethical trick selection, all culminating in his profound connection with the audience after decades of performance.Lance Burton Interview starts at 00:01:43"I Love That" starts at 01:01:51“Twisting the Aces” Prolog starts at 01:16:50 LINKSThe Eli Marks Mystery Series: http://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Get yourself a Free Eli Marks Short Story: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/jj1r1yaavjListen to an Eli Marks Audio Short Story: https://BookHip.com/LZBPPMDLance Burton Website: https://www.lanceburton.com/"The Importance of Being Earnest" (Audible Version): https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Oscar-Wilde-BBC-Radio-Drama-Collection-Audiobook/1787534693"Ghost Light" (Full Movie): https://youtu.be/91hRaPHmHoQ"Dying To Audition" (Free Audiobook): https://youtu.be/e0Pta98R0MQCheck out everything at Albert's Bridge Books: http://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/
Praying for those in need. Never forgetting the little blessings. Being a Democrat means enduring a daily humiliation ritual and denying basic facts. A genuine resignation vs a grift. Sauce people need an act to protect their rights. Democrats have been ramping up this violent rhetoric. Twisting up malcontents to action. Follow The Jesse Kelly Show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJesseKellyShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
B. GOLDSTONE FAILURE AND SUPERNOVA DISCOVERY Guest: Bob Zimmerman NASA's Goldstone antenna, a critical link in the Deep Space Network, is out of service due to an embarrassing error where it was over-rotated, twisting the cables. This impacts communications with interplanetary and Artemis missions. Separately, new astronomical data from a supernova explosion shows the initial eruption was not symmetrical but bipolar, pushing material and light along the star's poles, refining explosion models.
On this episode of Stinchfield, we expose the shocking collapse inside the BBC. Top leaders at the network are stepping down after being caught red-handed deceptively editing President Trump’s January 6th speech — twisting his words to make it look like he called on protesters to “fight.” He never did. This was pure media manipulation designed to fuel the left’s narrative and smear Trump at all costs. Grant breaks down how this isn’t just journalistic malpractice — it’s part of a larger war waged by the mainstream media against anyone who dares to challenge their power. Once again, their obsession with destroying Trump has backfired spectacularly. In the end, every institution that goes after him ends up exposed, humiliated, and losing credibility with the American people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz was an all-American hero cop. Beloved in the community, leader of the explorer program, and had a long list of commendations. As he neared retirement, he went out on a suspicious call and never returned. A massive manhunt began, uncovering no suspects, but a lot about Gliniewicz, who was not the cop people thought he was. Send your scary stories to: mikeohhello@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatchapterpodcast Business enquires : thatchapter@night.com Merch : https://that-chapter-shop.fourthwall.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices