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As studios pull big releases from theaters, Jeff manages to catch the latest Pixar movie Onward in theater while the rest of the cast stay in and watch some streaming content.  For more information on how to confront a pandemic, take a listen to the NYTimes podcast The Daily.  -Confronting a Pandemic (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-pandemic.html?) -Learning to Live with the Coronavirus (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus.html) Thanks to our sponsors this week: Hello Fresh and Native.  For 20% off your first purchase, visit nativedeodorant.com and use promo code FILMCAST during checkout. Go to HelloFresh.com/slashfilm10 and use code SLASHFILM10 for 10 free meals including free shipping. Listen and subscribe to David’s newest podcast Culturally Relevant (https://culturallyrelevantshow.com/) and subscribe to his YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/davechensky) . Check out Jeff Cannata’s D&D show Dungeon Run (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3BYmMS1F4rNWsAkCaEVhoQ) . Listen to Devindra's podcast with Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/07/engadget-podcast-microsoft-apple-pcs/) on all things tech. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/slashfilmcast) or like us on Facebook. (https://facebook.com/slashfilmcast) Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only) What We've been watching (~00:06:30) Jeff - Onward David - Guns Akimbo, Freaks, Love Is Blind, Hillary Devindra - Giri/Haji, Cosmos, Dispatches from Elsewhere   After Dark(~00:57:15) Credits: Our music sometimes comes from the work of Adam Warrock (http://www.adamwarrock.com/) . You can download our theme song here. (http://www.adamwarrock.com/?p=3174) Our Slashfilmcourt music comes from SMHMUSIC.com (http://smhmusic.com/) . Our spoiler bumper comes from filmmaker Kyle Hillinger. (https://m.youtube.com/kylehillinger) This episode was edited by Beidi Z. (https://www.adamscostudio.com/) If you’d like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail slashfilmcast@gmail.com. Contact us at our voicemail number: 781-583-1993 You can donate and support the /Filmcast by going to slashfilm.com (http://slashfilm.com/) , clicking on the /Filmcast tab, and clicking on the sidebar “Donate” links! Thanks to all our donors this week!

With the end of Bojack Horseman and the beginning of Mythic Quest, it’s a “What We’ve been Watching” episode of the Slashfilmcast. David, Devindra, Jeff dive into some new Netflix, HBO, and even Apple content. Stay for the after dark to see how the cast manages their digital movie library.  Thanks to our sponsors this week: LightStream, Pretty Litter Get an additional interest rate discount by visiting lightstream.com/FILMCAST Go to PrettyLitter.com and use promo code FILMCAST for 20% off your first order! Listen and subscribe to David’s newest podcast Culturally Relevant (https://culturallyrelevantshow.com/) , subscribe to his YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/davechensky) , and follow him on Letterboxd. (http://letterboxd.com/davechen) . Check out Jeff Cannata’s D&D show Dungeon Run (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3BYmMS1F4rNWsAkCaEVhoQ) . Listen to Devindra's podcast with Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/07/engadget-podcast-microsoft-apple-pcs/) on all things tech. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/slashfilmcast) or like us on Facebook. (https://facebook.com/slashfilmcast) Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only) What We've been Watching (~00:02:30) Jeff - Cheer, Bluey, 1 episode of Locke & Key (Netflix), Mythic Quest David - Bojack Horseman, Dracula,  Devindra - The Italian Job (original), McMillions After Dark (~01:16:00) Credits: Our music sometimes comes from the work of Adam Warrock (http://www.adamwarrock.com/) . You can download our theme song here. (http://www.adamwarrock.com/?p=3174) Our Slashfilmcourt music comes from SMHMUSIC.com (http://smhmusic.com/) . Our spoiler bumper comes from filmmaker Kyle Hillinger. (https://m.youtube.com/kylehillinger) This episode was edited by Beidi Z. (https://www.adamscostudio.com/) If you’d like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail slashfilmcast@gmail.com. Contact us at our voicemail number: 781-583-1993 You can donate and support the /Filmcast by going to slashfilm.com (http://slashfilm.com/) , clicking on the /Filmcast tab, and clicking on the sidebar “Donate” links! Thanks to all our donors this week!

In this episode, we are joined by Professor Petrus de Vries, Sue Struengmann Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Academic Head: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Alexis Minnaar, English and Geography tutor at DawnCroft Alexis was diagnosed with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, at the age of two. Prof. de Vries and Alexis graciously joined me to engage in a discussion on TAND, a phrase coined by Professor de Vries himself, which is an acronym for Tuberous Sclerosis Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders and its one of the most challenging aspects of managing a TSC diagnosis and is a clinical manifestation of TSC, along with the other manifestations. Recently, Professor de Vries’ along with Anna Jansen (UZ Brussel – Vrije Universiteit Brussel) were awarded funding from the Tuberous Sclerosis Association and the King Baudouin Foundation for the TANDem project, which will bring together a worldwide team of families affected by TSC, researchers and clinicians to provide scientific evidence for greater TAND intervention and treatment. The two-part project will first focus on the development of a self-report TAND checklist and identification smartphone app, to measure how people are affected by TAND. The second part of the study will investigate the best ways to treat TAND, including agreement on suitable clinical guidelines for TAND. Following this work in identifying and treating TAND, the TANDem Project will help to prepare a global team of TAND researchers to raise awareness and lead future research into TAND. Bringing both Alexis and Professor de Vries together to discuss their lived experiences with TAND in a Q & A session to bring to light the perspective of patient, doctor and a parent, to hash out the very different experiences. Professor de Vries coined the term TAND when in need of a succinct way to sum up the grouping of symptoms in a way that is easier for families also to talk to others about. “It can be easier to say; “I have, or my child has epilepsy or I've got something on my skin or got a kidney thing” than to talk about anxiety, about mental health issues and about learning issues and about all sorts of stuff like that. So, the journey to share often takes even longer for people about those kinds of things. And that's why it was so important for us to find a way of building a kind of a language around TAND. And to give the message, the simple message to people is that TAND is as much part of tuberous sclerosis complex as all the other things are. And therefore, it's not something to be ashamed about or shy about or embarrassed about. This is something that we need to know about them that we can do something about. And so that really is, you know, you you're talking about how do we how do we put down on a level playing field with all the other things, it's just as important and just the same as all these physical health problems that people have learned to talk about and have learned to treat in a better way. And so for many decades, very little research was done on behavior and psychiatry and mental health. It was, in 2012, when we had the consensus conference in the US to revise the diagnostic criteria and to revise the treatment guidelines that we the neuro psychiatry group that said, What? We've been trying to tell people to do these things, and nobody has been doing anything. What can we do to make it simple, so that people might start to listen to us? And the one thing we realized was, we've been talking about know, you have to think about the behavioral issues and the psychiatric issues and the academic issues and the intellectual issues and the psychosocial issues. And you know, by the time I said that whole sentence, people aren't listening to me anymore. And so that was why we decided we needed to come up with a simple term that puts all these things together. And that was the birth of the word TAND, which stands as you know, for TSC, associated neuro psychiatric disorders across all those different levels. We wanted a simple word that you and I can talk about TAND in one word, and then we can start to break it up, rather than to talk about all these fuzzy words that in a psychiatrist often like to talk about, that nobody follows. Right? So that was really the reason to give us that you can talk about it.” Alexis shares her own lived experience with TAND as well; “(my mother) She said I was having temper tantrums at school starting at about age seven. And she actually got to a point where she had to speak to my doctor say, look, you know, is it the TSC that's causing this or is it anger, or is it discipline issues? Or, you know, how do I deal with this? And so, my pediatric neurologist, her advice at the time was-there's no excuse for bad behavior. So, my mom had to put me on a strict discipline, freedom within boundaries sort of routine. I had strict routines in terms of schooling. Whether I was homeschooled or not, you know, you wake up at seven, you started school at eight, you work 'til two. And after that, you could do what you wanted. You took your medicine at seven, you know, they were they were structured systems in place so that I didn't have an excuse, and it's been very helpful. I did go through the TAND checklist last night, actually. And I kind of giggled because I realized I do kind of struggle to in terms of organization, I think you called it executive functioning” I am personally passionate about TAND because of the impact it had on our entire family. There tends to be a ripple effect when dealing with a lot of dysregulated and unpredictable behavior on top of seizures for long time periods and the whole family develops dysfunctional ways of coping. So when I heard Professor de Vries talk about TAND, first on YouTube and then in person at the World TSC Conference in 2017 in Dallas, the entire history of our life with TSC started to make more sense. More regarding the TANDem project; “And so what the TANDem project will do is three things: One, we're going to make a self-report version of the checklist, so that you either as a parent or caregiver or an individual that lives at TSC can fill it in yourself. Two-then we're going to put it into an app so that you can download an app and fill it in on the app. Three-And then we are going to create an expert group of people, consensus guidelines for treatment, next steps interventions for all these seven clusters of TAND difficulties. And then we're going to build them into the app so that when you sit down and you fill in the app for yourself or for your son or daughter, and you click on it, it will show you your child’s cluster profile. And you can click on it and it'll tell you what you can do about your that specific type of manifestation. And it will also tell you what the clinicians and the physicians ought to be doing as the next steps for your TAND profile. The TANDem project is just starting. We will create a website. And as soon as there are updates, we will inform people like you and the TS Alliance and the TCI, etc. So, the people just follow the story and give us input into the progress of the project over the next four years. It’s funded for four years by a Belgian foundation. It's called the King Baudouin Foundation. And they have funded us basically to develop this app, to validate the app and we will use people in the US and different parts of the world to make sure that we have something that we think is a good product that can then be launched for anybody in the world to use towards the end of the project. So that's the idea. You can see it's very practical. And it's really about empowering families and people who live with TSC. Because we know we can't wait until you can get somebody who knows about TAND- we need to give you the tools. I also don't want everyone to think that TANDem will solve all the problems of TAND in the world, but I think it's the kind of next step that we're taking in the community with people in the community that I'm really excited about.” From Alexis: “Education is where my heart lies for kids with TAND or any other genetic disorder, autism, anything else of because there is none in South Africa. All the children get sent to a special needs school and they get cheated and it’s frustrating.” Thanks for listening and many many thanks to both Professor Petrus de Vries and Alexis Minnaar for being willing to engage in this important conversation and shed some light on the lived and learned experience of TSC & TAND. WE will be watching and waiting to hear more on the TANDem project as it develops. Find us at: https://tsctalks.com Professor Petrus de Vries’ links: University of Cape Town: http://www.psychiatry.uct.ac.za/psych/staff/petrus-de-vries Centre For Autism Research: http://www.cara.uct.ac.za/petrus-de-vries TANDem press release: https://www.tsalliance.org/international-tand-research-project-awarded-funding/ Professor de Vries discussing TANDem: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=699529333889383 Recent article: https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/offer-support-young-autistic-children-south-africa/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profpetrusdevries/ TSC South Africa: https://www.facebook.com/TSSouthAfrica/ Alexis Minnaar links: Blog: http://theycallmetsc.blogspot.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexisbilyard Living with TSC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theycallmetsc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/they_call_me_tsc/ Previous podcasts on TSC Talks: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18952329 and https://www.spreaker.com/episode/19010713

In this episode, we are joined by Professor Petrus de Vries, Sue Struengmann Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Academic Head: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Alexis Minnaar, English and Geography tutor at DawnCroft Alexis was diagnosed with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, at the age of two. Prof. de Vries and Alexis graciously joined me to engage in a discussion on TAND, a phrase coined by Professor de Vries himself, which is an acronym for Tuberous Sclerosis Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders and its one of the most challenging aspects of managing a TSC diagnosis and is a clinical manifestation of TSC, along with the other manifestations.Recently, Professor de Vries’ along with Anna Jansen (UZ Brussel – Vrije Universiteit Brussel) were awarded funding from the Tuberous Sclerosis Association and the King Baudouin Foundation for the TANDem project, which will bring together a worldwide team of families affected by TSC, researchers and clinicians to provide scientific evidence for greater TAND intervention and treatment. The two-part project will first focus on the development of a self-report TAND checklist and identification smartphone app, to measure how people are affected by TAND. The second part of the study will investigate the best ways to treat TAND, including agreement on suitable clinical guidelines for TAND. Following this work in identifying and treating TAND, the TANDem Project will help to prepare a global team of TAND researchers to raise awareness and lead future research into TAND.Bringing both Alexis and Professor de Vries together to discuss their lived experiences with TAND in a Q & A session to bring to light the perspective of patient, doctor and a parent, to hash out the very different experiences. Professor de Vries coined the term TAND when in need of a succinct way to sum up the grouping of symptoms in a way that is easier for families also to talk to others about.“It can be easier to say; “I have, or my child has epilepsy or I've got something on my skin or got a kidney thing” than to talk about anxiety, about mental health issues and about learning issues and about all sorts of stuff like that. So, the journey to share often takes even longer for people about those kinds of things. And that's why it was so important for us to find a way of building a kind of a language around TAND. And to give the message, the simple message to people is that TAND is as much part of tuberous sclerosis complex as all the other things are. And therefore, it's not something to be ashamed about or shy about or embarrassed about. This is something that we need to know about them that we can do something about. And so that really is, you know, you you're talking about how do we how do we put down on a level playing field with all the other things, it's just as important and just the same as all these physical health problems that people have learned to talk about and have learned to treat in a better way. And so for many decades, very little research was done on behavior and psychiatry and mental health. It was, in 2012, when we had the consensus conference in the US to revise the diagnostic criteria and to revise the treatment guidelines that we the neuro psychiatry group that said, What? We've been trying to tell people to do these things, and nobody has been doing anything. What can we do to make it simple, so that people might start to listen to us? And the one thing we realized was, we've been talking about know, you have to think about the behavioral issues and the psychiatric issues and the academic issues and the intellectual issues and the psychosocial issues. And you know, by the time I said that whole sentence, people aren't listening to me anymore. And so that was why we decided we needed to come up with a simple term that puts all these things together. And that was the birth of the word TAND, which stands as you know, for TSC, associated neuro psychiatric disorders across all those different levels. We wanted a simple word that you and I can talk about TAND in one word, and then we can start to break it up, rather than to talk about all these fuzzy words that in a psychiatrist often like to talk about, that nobody follows. Right? So that was really the reason to give us that you can talk about it.”Alexis shares her own lived experience with TAND as well; “(my mother) She said I was having temper tantrums at school starting at about age seven. And she actually got to a point where she had to speak to my doctor say, look, you know, is it the TSC that's causing this or is it anger, or is it discipline issues? Or, you know, how do I deal with this? And so, my pediatric neurologist, her advice at the time was-there's no excuse for bad behavior. So, my mom had to put me on a strict discipline, freedom within boundaries sort of routine. I had strict routines in terms of schooling. Whether I was homeschooled or not, you know, you wake up at seven, you started school at eight, you work 'til two. And after that, you could do what you wanted. You took your medicine at seven, you know, they were they were structured systems in place so that I didn't have an excuse, and it's been very helpful. I did go through the TAND checklist last night, actually. And I kind of giggled because I realized I do kind of struggle to in terms of organization, I think you called it executive functioning”I am personally passionate about TAND because of the impact it had on our entire family. There tends to be a ripple effect when dealing with a lot of dysregulated and unpredictable behavior on top of seizures for long time periods and the whole family develops dysfunctional ways of coping. So when I heard Professor de Vries talk about TAND, first on YouTube and then in person at the World TSC Conference in 2017 in Dallas, the entire history of our life with TSC started to make more sense. More regarding the TANDem project; “And so what the TANDem project will do is three things: One, we're going to make a self-report version of the checklist, so that you either as a parent or caregiver or an individual that lives at TSC can fill it in yourself. Two-then we're going to put it into an app so that you can download an app and fill it in on the app. Three-And then we are going to create an expert group of people, consensus guidelines for treatment, next steps interventions for all these seven clusters of TAND difficulties. And then we're going to build them into the app so that when you sit down and you fill in the app for yourself or for your son or daughter, and you click on it, it will show you your child’s cluster profile. And you can click on it and it'll tell you what you can do about your that specific type of manifestation. And it will also tell you what the clinicians and the physicians ought to be doing as the next steps for your TAND profile. The TANDem project is just starting. We will create a website. And as soon as there are updates, we will inform people like you and the TS Alliance and the TCI, etc. So, the people just follow the story and give us input into the progress of the project over the next four years. It’s funded for four years by a Belgian foundation. It's called the King Baudouin Foundation. And they have funded us basically to develop this app, to validate the app and we will use people in the US and different parts of the world to make sure that we have something that we think is a good product that can then be launched for anybody in the world to use towards the end of the project. So that's the idea. You can see it's very practical. And it's really about empowering families and people who live with TSC. Because we know we can't wait until you can get somebody who knows about TAND- we need to give you the tools. I also don't want everyone to think that TANDem will solve all the problems of TAND in the world, but I think it's the kind of next step that we're taking in the community with people in the community that I'm really excited about.”From Alexis: “Education is where my heart lies for kids with TAND or any other genetic disorder, autism, anything else of because there is none in South Africa. All the children get sent to a special needs school and they get cheated and it’s frustrating.”Thanks for listening and many many thanks to both Professor Petrus de Vries and Alexis Minnaar for being willing to engage in this important conversation and shed some light on the lived and learned experience of TSC & TAND. WE will be watching and waiting to hear more on the TANDem project as it develops. Find us at: https://tsctalks.com Professor Petrus de Vries’ links:University of Cape Town: http://www.psychiatry.uct.ac.za/psych/staff/petrus-de-vriesCentre For Autism Research: http://www.cara.uct.ac.za/petrus-de-vriesTANDem press release: https://www.tsalliance.org/international-tand-research-project-awarded-funding/Professor de Vries discussing TANDem: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=699529333889383Recent article: https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/offer-support-young-autistic-children-south-africa/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profpetrusdevries/TSC South Africa: https://www.facebook.com/TSSouthAfrica/Alexis Minnaar links: Blog: http://theycallmetsc.blogspot.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexisbilyardLiving with TSC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theycallmetsc/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/they_call_me_tsc/Previous podcasts on TSC Talks: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18952329 and https://www.spreaker.com/episode/19010713

David, Devindra, Jeff are joined by Hoai-Tran Bui, staff writer at Slashfilm.com, to review The Kid Who Would Be King, the newest film by writer and director Joe Cornish. The cast sans Devindra moves on to Serenity, the latest film by Steven Knight. Read about why Serenity is the wackiest film this year on Slashfilm.com (https://www.slashfilm.com/serenity-ending-twist/) and watch David's video essay on the film on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdTNdW2F4jo&) , spoiler alert! Listen to David’s other podcast Write Along (https://writealongpodcast.com/) with writer C. Robert Cargill and Devindra's new podcast Know More Tech (https://knowmoretech.net/author/tenken/) , answering your question on the latest gadgets. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/slashfilmcast) or like us on Facebook. (https://facebook.com/slashfilmcast) Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only) What We've been Watching: (~4:00) David - Dark Season 1, Bumblebee Devindra -Hi Score Girl, Sex Education, Good Girls Jeff - First 3 episodes of Escape at Dannemora HT Bui - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Feature (~40:00) The Kid Who Would Be King Spoiler (~1:00:40) After dark (~1:20:00) Serenity Credits: Our music sometimes comes from the work of Adam Warrock (http://www.adamwarrock.com/) . You can download our theme song here. (http://www.adamwarrock.com/?p=3174) Our Slashfilmcourt music comes from Simonmharris.com (http://www.simonmharris.com/) . Our spoiler bumper comes from filmmaker Kyle Hillinger. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6902426/) Production assistance this week comes from Beidi Z. (https://www.adamscostudio.com/) If you’d like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail slashfilmcast@gmail.com. Contact us at our voicemail number: 781-583-1993 You can donate and support the /Filmcast by going to slashfilm.com, clicking on the /Filmcast tab, and clicking on the sidebar “Donate” links! Thanks to all our donors this week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit https://www.acast.com/privacy

The Consumer Electronics Show is happening this week in Las Vegas. Plenty of cool new gear being rolled out and some surprise announcements, like the return of CIRCUIT CITY. What? We've got that story inside today's OFF THE AIR with Lynch & Taco. Have a listen:

FWOAC wades into the shallow muck of the Summer of Troma with our review The Toxic Avenger Part 1 and Part 2. 01:03 - The Toxic Avenger 1 & 2 discussion 28:30 - What We've been watching: Pat - Logan Noir Jacob - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 38:20 - Martini Shot Robert Zemeckis helming The Flash? TV Networks returning to old properties Next Week: Alien: Covenant

This week on the What We've watched Podcast, we go over some highlights and interesting stops along the way in the long and varied career of Tom Cruise.

The "Phantom Canyon" casting call ends this Friday! Get your auditions in before it's too late. The Pendant Picnic is in a scant two weeks, and we hope to see you there if you're in the general southern California area! "Tabula Rasa" season two scripts are being churned out as we speak, and no new TWIPs until next month! What? We've got preview trailers for "The Kingery" episode 6x10, "Much Ado About Nothing" act II, "Seminar" episode 51, "Tabula Rasa" episode 1x08 and "Genesis Avalon" episode 43, and Jordan and David Ault discuss singing, Benedict Cumberbatch, and accents! Reeeeeaaaaaad! Er, listen. But also read! --Please leave us a rating on iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions