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In these two incredibly interesting segments, Dr. Mistry and Donna Lee talk about all things prostate and why Donna Lee should probably be in legal trouble for not giving her husband enough nooky.  Lol!  Have you ever wondered "What exactly does the prostate do and why is it necessary?"  Well, you're not alone because we're asked that question ALL OF THE TIME!  Tune in for the explanation as Dr. Mistry will give you some amazing nuggets of prostate truth.  The phrase "You might lose it if you don't use it" super applies here regarding the prostate!  Also, new word alert!  Donna Lee learns what "capacious" means and just you wait until you hear why it's discussed.  In the second part of this episode, Dr. Mistry will explain buried penis and why it's such a problem for so many men.  It can be an uncomfortable discussion but we can help!  We'll also talk about plastic surgeon, Dr. David Dellinger, and what he can do to help the penis with size issues!  Yeppers, you guessed it!  Penises can be enhanced with botox and fillers too!  We'll talk about "vaginal rejuvenation" and options that we offer.  We cover it ALL in this episode!  Voted top Men's Health Podcast, Sex Therapy Podcast, and Prostate Cancer Podcast by FeedSpotDr. Mistry is a board-certified urologist and has been treating patients in the Austin and Greater Williamson County area since he started his private practice in 2007.We enjoy hearing from you! Email us at armormenshealth@gmail.com and we'll answer your question in an upcoming episode.Phone: (512) 238-0762Email: armormenshealth@gmail.comWebsite: armormenshealth.comOur Locations:Round Rock Office970 Hester's Crossing RoadSuite 101Round Rock, TX 78681Lakeline Office12505 Hymeadow DriveSuite 2CAustin, TX 78750South Austin Office6501 South CongressSuite 1-103Austin, TX 78745Dripping Springs Office170 Benney LaneSuite 202Dripping Springs, TX 78620

Since 1933 Oklahoma City has had Town Hall meetings with fabulous speakers and lunch if you are so inclined. Yes, this is something anyone can be involved in or join! Dawn Hopkins (center)  is the President and left is her husband Ted Hopkins with some great military stories! Yeppers you get two for one in this OSJ Radio Hour!Oklahoma City Town Hall Lecture Series for 2023-2024 series speakers are always nationally recognized speakers. This OSJ Radio Hour airing 8/12/23 at 9:05am on FREEDOM 96.9FM will have you looking forward to these speakers at 11 AM at The Church ️ of the Servant on 14343 N. MacArthur Blvd. in OKC starting September 21st, 2023 and running through April 18th, 2024.Go To: okctownhall.org to see and read about each speaker or call (405) 202-4262 AND you will be about to pick up the latest OSJ magazine there as well since we have become a sponsor!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Plus Dawn has written a true story that is all her own and Ted's experience… hints the bobcat purse on the in studio picture. She also has been published.  Her book, “Parthur, the Story of an Orphaned Bobcat,” is her own true story of raising a four week old bobcat kitten and returning him to the wild. It can be found on Amazon and Dawn Hopkins is the writer!And if that is not enough Dawn teaches calligraphyEmail Dawn at: dawn2dawnagain@aol.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ted Hopkins (Edward Donald Hopkins) graduated from the Air Force Academy in the second class, 1960.  Rose to Captain in the Air Force as a fighter pilot in the 102 Delta Dagger.  Flew most of the sonic booms for the Oklahoma City Sonic Boom Test in 1964 in the F104 Starfighter.  Entered the business world and retired as Chairman of the Board of Medalist Industries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1996. Lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, until 2017.  Then moved to Oklahoma City.Dawn Hopkins is the President of Oklahoma City Town Hall for the 2300-2400 season.  She and her husband moved here from Scottsdale, Arizona, 6 years ago.  While in Arizona, Dawn ran the Sonoran Speakers Club for 11 years, brining nationally known speakers to the Scottsdale area. Dawn is a graduate of the University of New Mexico.  She also has been published.  Her book, “Parthur, the Story of an Orphaned Bobcat,” is her own true story of raising a four week old bobcat kitten and returning him to the wild.Oklahoma City Town Hallwebsite:  okctownhall.org Phone:  405-202-4262

TODAY'S TOPIC Let's get comfortablyyyyy WEIRD, fam! Today we're talking ALL things woo, taboo, spiritual, and commonly labelled "weird", or "not for grown adults who should 'know better' or be 'smarter than that'".

Ahhhh Yes!! Yes Indeed! Yeppers! It's The Mad Scientist Lab Podcast! (Insert Joy Here) Jared blows RJs mind as he shows RJ various rockets designed by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. From the sheer design of the ships to the way fuel is broken down, Jared talks about how commercializing trips to Mars is becoming ever so closer to becoming a reality and if we'll see it in our lifetime. Why are the guys excited? Girl Scout Cookies!! That's Why! The guys talk about their favorite flavors and Jared drops a bombshell on RJ in the form of …Ice Cream. A lot of good content and information on this one folks! Please join us Tuesday, January 31st at Shooters in Springfield for Open Mic Comedy Night!! Review, Share, Comment, Subscribe and Be Safe

Can you actually be success intolerant? Yeppers. This can happen subconsciously. You think you want to be successful, but fear the unchartered territory of who that version of you will be.  Let me be your sherpa and help you navigate your internal and external success obstacles. We all have a success setpoint. When we start to move to the upper limits of that, we feel more and more uncomfortable and stop taking action that builds forward momentum. You can fear being successful will mean you no longer fit in with your current groups of friends/family/coworkers and not know how to seek out a new more expansive and supportive network. You can fear that success is too much work and not sustainable. Realize that success equals more resources which allow you to uplevel your energy. Far from being exhausting, success is energizing. You can fear being seen as an imposter. Far from being a fraud, sharing what you know - even if you are just one or two steps along the path- can help others get to where you are.     Get Career Crisis Get Time Builder direct with bonus Clarify and Destress Meditation Get Time Builder on Amazon   Stay Inspired, Angela   Join the architecting community: Facebook Group Instagram LinkedIn Clubhouse 2:00 PM EST 3rd Sundays- Critical Conversations- A raw look at the state of our profession Twitter 9:00 AM EST Mondays- Architects as Healers: Buildings as Medicine Learn more and connect architectingpodcast.com Interested in sponsoring a show or having me as a guest on your podcast or community? Stop here to get information. Into/outro music Alive by Richard Wasson Copyright 2019

Intro: when you don't feel your best, do the thing anyway, Fake Famous, H&M is 40 shades of putty, Stitch Fix,  Let Me Run This By You: Selfie vacations, Paul Stuart, rent a fake jet, Tevas, we are old enough to accidentally wear cool clothes. Interview: We talk to Mickey O'Sullivan about body image, sibling relationships, getting bullied, Illinois State University, The Wake, Henry Moore is Melting at The Athenaeum, addiction, Sophia Bush, Chicago PD, Casey Affleck.FULL TRANSCRIPT (unedited):2 (10s):And I'm Gina .3 (11s):We went to theater school together. We survived it, but we didn't quite understand it.2 (15s):20 years later, we're digging deep talking to our guests about their experiences and trying to make sense of it all.3 (21s):We survived theater school and you will too. Are we famous yet?2 (35s):Isolation is a funny thing because it's both the thing that you feel drawn towards when you don't feel well. But it's also the thing that, you know, that makes it worse. And I saw another thing that said, the more comfortable you get with you and who you are, the less likely you're going to want to isolate because it does, you know, it it's effort to be who you are when you're, you know, not kind of sinked up. Yeah. That's all just to say that when my kids have their aches and pains and two of my kids are real vocal about every single sensation they ever have in their body at any given time. Like, I can't think of a time where these two leave the house where I haven't heard my foot hurts.2 (1m 20s):My shoulder hurts. I have a headache. My stomach hurts. It hurts when I do this. And I, I believe it all. And yet I'm like, yeah, but if you stay home, I'm not going to let you be on a screen. So you're just going to literally be staring at the wall, feeling that I wouldn't, you rather go to school. Right.1 (1m 38s):Interesting. But Gina, it has taken me to 46 to actually realize that. So they're like, literally like a year ago, I probably would've been like, you know what, I'm just gonna stay home. And like, I have a headache, but like now I realize like, oh no, I think it's also like, time is slipping by like, I'm getting older, we're marching towards death. Like I got to get outside2 (2m 3s):Dude. And1 (2m 4s):You know, so like, I, I think it takes some what it takes, but yeah, man, I know that this pandemic has created the sense that the outside world is dangerous because literally it was, so it is like a war in that we, I felt like we were in a war when, when this all started, it was two years ago this month. Right. So right. I came to visit and then all to you and then all hell broke loose. And it, yeah, it created this thing of like the danger is outside the home. And so now it's like so easy to, but I actually realize that I feel worse at home because not only then do I have a headache, I have to deal with my fucking dog.1 (2m 52s):Who's a pain in the ass and get triggered by my husband who I think should be doing his job differently. And I hear him because we're in a teeny house. So that's torture. That's worse.2 (3m 3s):That's terrible. That's no good. My corollary for that is just, I do spend all of my, I mean, I do my, everything I do is, is at my house. I take care of my house. I take care of my kids and then I write and, and work, work on, you know, artistic stuff when you're home and your office, maybe miles experiences this too. Like you don't, you're never not at work in a way. So you're, I gotta do some, I gotta do something to have more of a separation. Maybe I should just like, bro, did you, did you see what about Bob? When he, he worked from home, but he clocked in. I should know that.1 (3m 42s):Well, the other thing that I was thinking, so I, okay. I thought about this cause I was asked. Okay. So I, a friend of mine said, I have this free thing for stitch fix. Right. One of these bottles. Okay. Right. I've done those before I did DIA and co and whatever it lost, its luster, it's a waste of money. Eventually. It feels like, and it's ridiculous. Okay. But good, good news about stitch fix is that, or one of these services is that one. I love the jeans they sent me, but two, you have to leave the house to return the things you don't want or you pay for the things. Right. Okay. So that's a side benefit. And so that got me out of the house and three I'm wondering, I was like, oh, maybe I should send my code to Gina.1 (4m 26s):But then I'm like, Gina, doesn't like to shut up. Right. And Gina doesn't like, so they do the shopping, but you also don't strike me as someone who would want to dress up for our meetings.2 (4m 36s):Exactly. And I did stitch fix and did it for a while. And then I was like, well, what am I dress for? This is a big conundrum. I have just life in general. And we should tell our listeners that, you know, we're, we're contemplating recording, doing a video recorder recording of these podcasts, which will be great, but then it'll make me feel like I need to, but maybe, but maybe it's okay to feel that way. Maybe it would be actually really good for my mental health to be like, I have to get dressed for my day.1 (5m 8s):I think it helps me. I mean, look, I'm literally wearing a tank top and a bra, but like2 (5m 14s):No, that's huge. Yeah,1 (5m 15s):Yeah, yeah. Right. No, and pants without an elastic ways. So like, I think it helps me in that. And some days it's just a pain in the ass, but it also helps me to think that, yeah, at least I'm trying in some area of my life, which we're all trying in all areas, but I'm just saying it's a visual representation of the fact that like, oh, I'm trying, the other thing about coworking that I like is I get to see other people's outfits. And sometimes they're really cute. Sometimes they're fucking horrible. Like it there's a lot of like 20 year olds that are here at co-working because are 20, 25. I'm a little old. So I like age everyone down, but like a 25 year olds that cause you can rent big offices here too.1 (5m 59s):Like for companies like marketing companies. So I see the fashions of the 20 five-year-olds and I'm like, whoa, you are opening my eyes to a whole hell scape of fashion that I did not know existed.2 (6m 14s):It's all so bad. It's all so bad. By the way, before I forget the, the getting dressed is, is this the reason to do it as the same reason to make your bed every morning? Like you don't have to sure. But doing it creates a nice demarcation that you're not always just, you know, in this miasma of like doing the same, same thing. But yeah. Getting back to the fashions of it's all terrible. And I just watched this documentary called fake famous. You might really like it it's is actually so fascinating. It's a, some guy who, I'm not sure if he's a journalist or whatever, but he speaks all of the time on news programs about social media.2 (7m 2s):Like that's just his area of expertise. So he says the social experiment where he, they have a casting call where the casting call says, I'm asking for people who want to be famous. So they get 4,000 submissions1 (7m 18s):And it's is it called the theater school?2 (7m 20s):Yeah, no, it's not going to theater school. And of course, you know, they paid these people to do it inverse of what we did and they pick these three people who wants to be famous. And he was, he set out to use his knowledge of social media to make them famous, artificially famous. And it was so interesting. It's a, it's something, it's a culture that I knew about. Like, but I'm not, I don't participate in influencer culture. Right. And I don't know if you saw this thing, I posted that 40 million people in the world have a million or more followers, like really puts things in perspective.2 (8m 5s):You know? And, and, and it was also talking about how the algorithm shapes itself. So like I'm also reading this book about Alex Jones and conspiracy theories. And you know, he will say on his show, he'll say a lie. And then he'll say Google it, because he's got millions of listeners and millions of listeners Googling something. Right. Makes it, shapes it into something. Right.1 (8m 35s):It makes it true. Makes it true. You can literally an impact the truth. It's gross. But it's also, it's like literally how for me, yeah. It's like how Hitler got to power, right? There was no Google, but it is the same. Like if you believe it, it will be so on some level. And if 40 million people believe it, it will really be so on some level. Yes.2 (8m 58s):And if they tell us that earth tones and no patterns and no structure to garments looks good, eventually will believe it. And they probably are doing it because there's a glut of earth, tone fabric, and people are trying to write, but I haven't seen something that I would consider a cute outfit on a person under, or maybe even anybody, but in years, like going to the mall, I don't say, Ooh, this is great street1 (9m 29s):Snapper.2 (9m 30s):It's all just looks gross.1 (9m 33s):I went to, so I walked down my street to get to coworking and there's an H and M there. And I, and also when my niece was here, we went to H and M because they love that shit. And I, I was like, literally, this is all 40 shades of putty. Like honey, 40 shades of putty. I said, and she goes, what's potty. And I go, it's this color? 40 shades of putty is my new memoir. And it's all about this color scheme they've got going on. Right? Like it is literally Putney. The putty that came in, the eggs that we used to play with silly putty or whatever, the fuck,2 (10m 9s):Petty wood glue,1 (10m 12s):Like coffee2 (10m 13s):Grounds call,1 (10m 19s):Let me run this by you.2 (10m 27s):So one of the places, I guess that Instagram is a very popular Instagram spot, by the way, people do whole vacations that are just centered around where to have their picture made. And like, not even thinking about the vacation itself, like people come to LA. Yes. Ma'am people come to LA, let's say they had this one story on their two girls from there might have been from Russia. Now that I'm thinking of it came, you know, spent $2,000 or whatever on their ticket to come to LA. And it was literally just touring these selfie spots. One of them is the Paul Stewart building. There's a big pink, it's a Paul Stewart it's fashion design.2 (11m 9s):And it was just like, his store is the, it's a huge, huge, huge pink wall. Oh. And this is where people at any time of day, you could drive by it. And you're going to see people taking selfies there because it's an Instagram spot. Oh. So people come to LA by the droves with a list of selfie spots.1 (11m 33s):This is like fucking Pokemon people situation.2 (11m 37s):Okay. Like by dying because you're being pokey while you're driving. Yeah, exactly.1 (11m 42s):Wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah.2 (11m 43s):So I guess you don't see too much of this.1 (11m 45s):No, not, especially not in Pasadena. I can't2 (11m 48s):Imagine1 (11m 50s):Fucking suburb dude. And, and, and I would also, oh, but I did see, okay. So miles surfs. Right? And we, while he's a new surfer, I shouldn't, it's not like Kelly Slater or whatever the fuck. Anyway, the point is we went to a surf lesson once and I fucking kid, you not, there was a guy who I believe was speaking Russian on the phone at the Santa Monica parking lot at 7:00 AM beach parking lot with his Mercedes that was rented clearly with a camera on a fucking tripod, taking selfies at 7:00 AM with a rented Mercedes in a crazy outfit there when he was doing and, and, and me and miles and I, and, and, and the surf teacher, who's fucking hilarious.1 (12m 41s):Who's this stoner comedian named Jared, who is hilarious, was like, yeah, yeah, dude, this is, this is, this is it, man. This is how they do it. They like stop traffic. And, and I didn't know what he was talking about, but now that you're saying it, this is what this guy was doing. And I, he was on the bash Dudley doing it. So like, there was no embarrassment. I was like, what the fuck? And music was playing. It was videos too. Like Instagram videos, reels or something. He's fucking, he was playing rap music, which was the best thing about the whole thing was the music. But he, it was raw. And he was crouching down, like by the car, in an outfit at 7:00 AM.1 (13m 21s):And Doris was, I was with the dog of the dog was like, even the dog was like, what the fuck is this guy doing? Like what?2 (13m 28s):I never bring my personal. I was like, just taking a selfie. I have to do it usually with one of my kids. And even then it feels it's something about it feels wrong. And did you know that you can rent the space that looks like the interior of a private jet for $50 an hour so that you could take pictures and make it look like you are traveling,1 (13m 58s):Which is like my nightmare, because I'm afraid to fly. I'd go to, I'd be in hell, but okay.2 (14m 2s):Oh, you can rent a mansion for $600 in a day and have, you know, these Instagrammers, they get together like four or five looks and they rent out a mansion and they pose themselves in these ridiculous things. And then they, because they post, they have to post four times a day in order to stay relevant and to get brands that want to get a sponsor them or whatever. So they are just constantly going around looking for content. And then the pandemic happened. And I think that really gave rise to like renting these spaces because they couldn't actually go on these vacations and so forth.2 (14m 43s):Isn't that wild. It's just1 (14m 45s):Craziest shit I've ever, I'm going to watch this documentary. I M it is again, I know why you find it interesting too, is because it really reminds me of Adam McKay's work. Like what is happening? It's so meta. It's like, what? Wait a minute, wait, what is happening?2 (15m 7s):Well, ironically, I think one of the things that's happening is whereas, you know, initially the feeling about the internet, it was just made everything opened up, right. And that's still true to, to a large degree, but on another way, everybody's life is just about their phone. You know, your life takes place on this tiny little screen and, and to be in a group of people under, I mean, maybe not even that maybe just to be in a group of people is to see like 80% of them at any given moment staring at their phone, wherever they are out in the world. Right. They, one of the scenes in the movie is they, some company hires a bunch of influencers.2 (15m 51s):It's a junket, essentially. Like they take them to these selfie spots, including a abandoned water park. That's like a, that's like a great place to take salaries. They get this crew of girls and they just take them to these various spots to model this ugly, putty, colored clothing, and then get paid for brand, you know, for hashtagging the brand. And there, I was just like so depressed. I felt sick after watching that Pressing right. There was one guy who did not, he decided that actually of the three people, they picked, two of them quit during the experiment, because one of them was getting comments from his real cause the guy was buying them followers.2 (16m 38s):That's what he was doing. He bought them followers, which are all of these bots. And did you know that like people like Kim Kardashians who have whatever millions and millions it's estimated this 60% of their followers are bots. Yeppers. Yep. Yep. Yep. So I guess1 (17m 1s):I can't, I can't even process what's going on here today. Like, I, I, you, you can't people can't see what they will. Once we start recording these bad boys, the video, I like looked down at my fucking TIVA sandal. Okay. My Tivas okay. By the way, by the way I was wearing, I bought Tivas because my feet are fucked up. Right. And I had to wear, I got, I have two shoes now I can really wear, which are Hocus. And then Tivas alright, terrible. Sarah will situations. But anyway, I'm wearing black Tivas sandals that I wore literally wore in eighth grade. And then I have a fucking LL bean like throw back at, or is it an Adirondack2 (17m 45s):And1 (17m 47s):Adirondacks a chair. Right. But okay. And it has like kind of nineties, throwback colors, not on purpose. I just liked it. And I bought it has a hood. I fucking wearing that. Some jeans and my Tivas and I look like I'm going to summer camp. Right. And I'm in the coworking and these young, these young ladies go, oh my God, we'd love your throwback nineties outfit. Literally. They said that. And I was like, Oh my God, I, oh my God, I didn't ha I didn't know what was going on. And I was like, oh my God, the one there. Right. I literally looked like I was going to camp echo, which was the camp I went to the Y camp.1 (18m 30s):And I also was like, it's also kind of hideous. And yet these youngsters are thinking I'm doing it. Ironically.2 (18m 38s):Let's, let's give up.1 (18m 44s):Let's just give up. Let's kill ourselves.2 (18m 47s):Let's wave the white flag. I tried Lord. Oh Lord.1 (18m 53s):I mean, I, I couldn't understand what's going on. And I looked down and I was like, oh my God, they're so right. And I just smiled. And I was like, are they2 (19m 1s):Literally Chivas from eighth grade? Like, you literally still have your same. No,1 (19m 4s):I bought Because my feet hurt. I need sandals that are literally, it's so sad. It's so sad. And I was sitting at coworking and they walked by and they said that I looked down and I was like, I, I did, I did feel Gina. Like I just, I gave up2 (19m 23s):Trying to give up. Now we're all set.0 (19m 28s):Well2 (19m 39s):Today on the podcast, we are talking to Mickey O'Sullivan. Mickey O'Sullivan is a Chicago actor. You know him, you know him from the shy and from Chicago PD and athletes. So many television shows. I couldn't possibly mention them all here as well as theater and commercials. And he is a related and relatable, insightful, funny, warm, talented person. So please enjoy our conversation with Mickey O'Sullivan1 (20m 15s):I'm talking about right now, filling her age. I don't know. It's great. It's great. It's in a good way. You will see that my internet was in and out. It's just,2 (20m 24s):Yeah. Are you close to your router or1 (20m 27s):Even know where the router is? So there we5 (20m 29s):Go. What's the router.2 (20m 33s):Good point. Make you good. Bye. Nice flex there with your Peloton in the background.5 (20m 39s):Oh yeah. Check that out. Just like slid it over. I've got it on one of those lazy Susan's right now. This is my current look. And it just,1 (20m 48s):Do you have another lip?5 (20m 52s):Who's a lazy Susan on the table and you know how you got to kind of prop up your, your laptop. So,1 (20m 57s):Oh, I thought you had the Peloton on a fucking lazy Susan. I was like Next level.2 (21m 4s):I was adding a whole new dimension to that workout, which is already very difficult.1 (21m 8s):I was just feeling Gina and about the things, which is interesting that you popped on. So I can tell, I can say it in front of you and make you really embarrassed. So in a good way. So I was just saying, and we'll, we'll, we'll start with the official Gina opening, even though you left theater school still the same opening applies. So say it,2 (21m 27s):Congratulations. Mikio Sullivan, you survived theater school. Hey, Mickey, serve a cookie.1 (21m 35s):You deserve a cookie and all sorts of things and free therapy. And Yeah, so we all need that. But I was just saying that one of the things that I wanted to talk to you about, and we'll just dive right in and see Gina and I talked before our guests. So we're like warmed up about like psychological issues. Other people are like, what are you talking about? Like, why are you starting here? But here's how I have to start, because this is what I've realized lately. You're the only male identifying person that I've ever talked to. That talks about body image.2 (22m 8s):Oh,1 (22m 10s):I had never had a conversation where casually come up in conversation, your history of your relationship with your body as, as you from a kid to an adult, no one ever taught male, identifying person has ever talked about that with me and eight, I, it opened my eyes to like, oh shit, oh shit, men have body image issues. I did. It didn't even occur to me. So that's where I want to start. Good morning to you.5 (22m 40s):No, I'm also kind of jealous, right? So I listened to your podcast and you do you get like a real ramp up. And so this morning I was like, you know what? I need this a little bit. So I, you know, I drove the wife to work. I have a wife, I would say the word wife, which is really exciting. Thank you. And I'm also a chauffeur, which I love being. I like to be of service. I'm driving her there and I'm trying to have conversation to like warm up, you know? And she is so focused on work.2 (23m 12s):She's like, yeah. Anyway.1 (23m 17s):Yeah. She's like, that's all good. I didn't listen to the last 10 minutes. You said? Yeah. I mean, so I I'm glad that you, that was nice of you to do a ramp up, but no need, but, but, but also, can you talk a little bit about, and then we'll leave that that'll probably lead into acting stuff too, obviously in schooling, but like, what was your experience? Because you've talked about that. Like, I guess my first question would be like, what are the thoughts when I bring that up about a dude talking about body image,5 (23m 49s):To me, it makes total sense. And I'm also kind of shocked that more people don't talk about this. I mean, growing up, right. Like, yeah, kids are cruel for sure. But like, it's kind of very insidious the way that guys can be cruel to other guys. And also this idea that like, in order to be attractive to whoever I'm, whoever I'm like crushing on, like starting from a real young age is I better look like these people. And when we were growing up, those people were athletes. Right. It was never like Neil deGrasse Tyson. Right? Like it was never like these like really super intense or if it was, it was like bill gates or something.5 (24m 31s):And I don't know, like there was, there's this disconnect between masculinity and like being okay with your, your body and your body image and the way that you give off your image to other person, people so much. So to this day, I still struggle with it on a daily basis for a little while there, I was like, you know what? I think I understand the key to Hollywood success and that's the six pack and the really fucked up part was that the more, the closer I got to that goal, the better my career got. And I don't think that the two are linked. I don't think so. But I think that like, being, having to think that as somebody who's, who understands the industry pretty well and who has kind of had highs and lows in their career, if I'm thinking that then what is, you know, the version of 15 year old Makey, who's like, oh, I wonder what being an actor is like thinking.5 (25m 27s):And so that starts super young, but I was also stop me if you have questions, but I'm going to go on like a tangent here. Sure. So very young right. Actor on a baby soap opera before image is even a thing, right? Like before you have any concept of that, you give off your image to other people. I don't remember any of it, obviously. Right. And then parents separated. I come to Chicago, dad stays in New York, me and my brother growing up. My brother is always super thin, super smart. And I am always not super thin and not super smart. And so there's this kind of competitiveness that's going on right there.5 (26m 11s):But in order to fit in my brother developed a real good sense of humor at new school, very young. And I didn't, I was, I, I struggled to acclimate to like a new environment. And I guess, I don't know necessarily that I, I think that I wanted to tell myself that I had an eating problem growing up, but I don't know that that's true. I don't think I understood food or my body or energy really well because later on I started getting into athletics probably out of this complex.5 (26m 50s):Right. But I started using food for fuel and that kind of started my journey towards like understanding my body and understanding of what goes in there. But as a kid, it was like, if it's in the cupboard, I'm going to eat it. And I am a very energetic person. And so I attached myself to like food, energy, just keep going. But then when you're getting made fun of on a daily basis, energy emotions take like a lot of energy to process. And so I would come home and I would be in tears from, you know, being, they call me Shabaka my brother's name is Danica.5 (27m 30s):And they like, you know, the, the terrible people that our children. So I was always known as like, what is the one thing that is different between you and your brother? Well, you're fat and you're not. And, and yeah, like going into the career, it's awful.1 (27m 51s):But wait, I have a question. Was your family, I always wonder this because my family was not supportive. So, so I was bullied at school and I was also bullied at home. Were you bullied by your brother and your mom or no,5 (28m 8s):For sure. My brother, like, we were awful to one another, the fact that we have a relationship now and like a really good one is, is mind blowing. But yeah, we were awful each other. My mom, not so much, my mom always struggled with her body image and her weight and her reflection of herself. And I think still does to this day, like I remember like some of the conversations before our wedding was like, for both her and I like, you know, gotta start to trim up for the way, you know? So, so yeah. I don't know if I was bullied at home as much. I was, it was definitely a safe space for me coming home in that regard.5 (28m 50s):But my brother around his friends, it would increase a bit. And then of course that's like a role model to all of my friends or whatever. And then I just started hanging out with people who like, probably weren't the best for me because they weren't making fun of me. They weren't the best for me because of,1 (29m 10s):I mean, I think that it's like, we go, I'll speak for myself. I went, you go where the teasing stops. Right. Whoever's not, the love is great. And the love5 (29m 22s):Has an absence of love.1 (29m 24s):Right. I see. I always say like, I didn't necessarily want to be not if once I realized I was just going to keep being bullied, I then just wanted to be left alone. So whoever would leave me alone, if not mention it became my friend, even those people were fricking had troubles of their own. I mean, like were troubled, at least they weren't picking on me. Right. So it's like you start settling for more and more, less and less love. And like, you just want to disappear. I mean, that's what happened.5 (29m 56s):Do you think that that led to you being an artist in the sense that you started focusing more on self through isolation? Do you know what I mean?1 (30m 5s):Great question. I started. Yeah. I think that what happened was it led to my brain and heart madly trying to figure out why this was happening to me. Why was reading, being treated this way by school and at home and what I could do that was safe. And the only thing to do that was safe was make believe and create in a world where, yeah, where it wasn't about the way I looked because you know, but then you mix2 (30m 37s):Except until it totally was1 (30m 41s):When you then go to a theater school. So there you go.5 (30m 44s):Yeah. Yeah. Super weird to how that kind of comes into the mix. Right.2 (30m 50s):So I, I'm being quiet as you're talking Mickey because you're describing a dynamic that is happening in my house right now with my two sons and, and you're, so you're the, you're the grown up version. I'm really happy to hear you have a good relationship with your brother, because this is like one of my biggest fears. I had such a terrible relationship with my sister and my sons are on their way to, you know, how it seems to me is they're on their way to having that type of relationship. And maybe it's the thing about, you know, because kids are like, prof, I forget sometimes how much they have to take on at any given day.2 (31m 30s):Maybe even 90% of it at school is social. And only 10% of it is academic, but that's, that is so much that just, just like information processing and it has to happen in your body. So if you're having a hard time with it and then you're having, you know, body image issues on top of it, it's, it's all, it just seems like impossible to survive high school, you know? Like how does anybody survive high school, let alone theater school,5 (31m 60s):But oh,2 (32m 2s):No. The 15 and 13.5 (32m 4s):So part of the pandemic was they were being judged on this while they're going through like fuck and hormones and brutal. I could not imagine2 (32m 16s):Completely, completely brutal. And that's a whole other thing about education and the pandemic and how like we'll never get it back. Like, you know, it's just, there's just last years basically. But anyway. So when did you start getting into acting? When did you decide that that was something you wanted to pursue?5 (32m 34s):All right. So like alone, personally, like walking home from school, right. That, that mind was already there. Like my entire life. I was like, I'll be an actor. Not that I wanted to, but like, oh, that seems like, like I was the liar growing up. I was the storyteller I told the fucking biggest bibs in the world. And so I think like in my mind, but then it was like, oh, I'm very distractable. And I, this is how I knew I wanted to be an actor. Was that like one day that, wow, I could be a doctor. I could be a firefighter. Oh my gosh, garbage man. Why not? Right. And then the idea, like, I'd maybe like work on that for like a day.5 (33m 17s):And then the next day I'd be like, oh, I'm so interested in this. And I think later on, I was like, oh, you can go. It's a really cool way to learn about all sorts of these little things. It was just kind of like spin the wheel of roulette, acting, you know, go out for tons of commercials. You get to play a handyman for a day. And for me, like, I personally loved the pretend of like, oh, I wonder what a handyman stays like.1 (33m 41s):Yeah. That's what I remember about you is like a super curious kid, like super curious and maybe like that's part of the artist's brain too, is like, you were always curious, curious, curious, curious a hundred times curious. So what, okay, so you were like, that was your thought as you're walking home and then how did that translate into like being in a play or auditioning for shit? Or like how does that work or going to school? Yeah,5 (34m 7s):Definitely thought, right. Like funny person was my option in terms of getting out of like the social anxiety. And so my mom got me involved in a play, I think in like sixth grade, but it was outside of my social circle. It was like, we were on like the Southwest suburbs and this was way in the south suburbs. And so I didn't know anybody there only relationship to me was this thing. I played a skunk in a Winnie, the Pooh play. And then I proceeded to like rip my pants and fart in my own peace scene. So That helped the whole shitty body image to thing. Cause right.5 (34m 47s):Cause who splits their pants.2 (34m 50s):Right. Miley Cyrus actually. I mean, anybody can start therapy6 (34m 56s):It's me and my2 (34m 58s):Okay. But when it was time to pick college and you were looking around, did you look at a variety of theater programs or conservatories?5 (35m 8s):No. I don't think that I admitted to myself at that point that those was like a valid career option. So my senior year of high school, I had this like real stint in hockey where like I thought that that could be a career path for me. And then that was ended through like a variety of like injuries and you know, like personal stuff. And so then it was like I had a theater professor pulled me aside and was like, Hey, not professor, but high school teacher, special ed teacher who then ran the drama program was like, Hey, maybe you should consider doing this with your free time. Instead of just like smoking pot and smoking hookah and like driving around with your newfound free time.5 (35m 51s):And I was like, oh, maybe that's a good idea. So I did like beauty and the beast high school as like, you know, this like a side character kind of like not in the limelight. And then later on did a Shakespeare comedians, LR where we just totally ripped off of the American conservatory theater's production from, we like copied it, move by move and called it acting. And then we won state for that, which is kind of backwards, you know, like we won state for copying and production. So I definitely thought it was good, but I didn't think that I was any good at like creating my own versions of characters or anything. So I knew I had to apply to a school.5 (36m 32s):I had no idea what I was going to apply to. That seemed to be what I was good at. So I did a double major and special education and, and theater because I didn't think that a, my parents would approve of me being fully theater student. And then B I felt like maybe it was either a selfish career path or yeah, not like, I think I wanted something more noble maybe. And I had experience working summer camps for special Olympics and stuff like that growing up. So I was like, oh, that's a, that's an interesting thing. So then when I got to Illinois state university, they were one of the schools that accepted me.5 (37m 15s):I had no concept of what a theater school should be, none whatsoever. And a lot of the other people were like, oh, I did four years of drama and four years of forensics. And in the summers, I go away to theater camp and I was like, I played hockey. And so I didn't fit in again. Right. Which was fine because I learned how to be by myself. And so I started making all of my social circles outside of the theater department for the most part. And I think in a way that kind of helped me, like I practice my monologues in front of my buddy, Greg, who I think Greg does like computer science and you would just go, I think that was good. You know, it really became self self reflection.5 (37m 59s):And the weird part is like, I would go in and I, I really did become the, the, one of the golden children of my department. I was an asshole. Yeah. So a hundred percent I was cast in a li almost immediately. And2 (38m 18s):It does not surprise me because this is what always happens. Like the, the men who go into drama don't tend towards the masculine. Right. So then when they get somebody who's like, I played hockey that, I mean, you know, that happened in my high school. That1 (38m 35s):Happened our theater school too.5 (38m 37s):I think it's backwards too though. Cause you the more in touch with my feminine, oh, I hate that word. But like, you know, like this idea that like there's a masculine, the more I got in touch with myself and with art, I felt the better I did. Right. I still think that to this day, like the more I'm receptive to my own emotions and the emotions of those around me, the better I'm able to handle my career.1 (39m 4s):Yeah. It just sounds like the, the, the bind that we're all in, which is people want you to be a certain way. But when you actually invest in being another way, it's going to make you a better person than artists, but nobody really wants that, but they say they want it. So men are in a bind. I guess what I'm saying is like, you're the first male guest that we've had on that I've known. And I know the struggles that you've been through and it, it opened my eyes to theater school for men straight men specifically are men that identify as straight, whatever. It's a, it's a bind for you too. It's a bind for you. So I guess, what did you love about theater school and what were you like? I'm outta here.1 (39m 46s):That's my question.5 (39m 48s):Yeah. And those are all awesome points. Like it continues. The body image thing continues all throughout college. And I do grow closer to myself through that. But I think the thing that I loved about it is that I had that opportunity for the first time in my life. Like hockey was definitely an obsession for me. I tend to gravitate towards obsessing. And so to get into theater school, I didn't take any gen EDS. I like, I, I forgot my degree. I failed out of school. And finally, because I just, I wasn't interested in anything except for learning all of the theater that I think at some point I looked at somebody I MDB and I was like, oh, they were, you know, working for 15 years before they had their big, big, big break right there before they were discovered.5 (40m 36s):And so I was like, oh, I have a lot of catching up to do. Right. I didn't do this until my, until I was 18. Now it's time to catch up. So I just started like taking only theater classes. And then the idea that you can sit or lay on the ground in a dark room, surrounded by your peers and think about what shape your body is making and what noises are coming out to me. That was super interesting to me. I got lost in that world. And I still think to this day, like my brother is a finance guy and he he'll never know what it's like to just weep behind a mask because you saw something a certain way one day. And so for me, that was a celebrated thing.5 (41m 18s):It was like, congratulations, you, you cried behind the mask. I don't know. It's still is kind of a bizarre thing to like to reflect on. But my, my presentation skills got better at, than my social emotional skills got better. I was spending every night in a rehearsal space getting to know how to best work with people and how to make mistakes, like going back. I love college. I don't like the results of college. I don't like the way that it was kind of organized. People were cut after certain years. It was very dramatic. But theater school for me was, I mean, what a dream, right? Like I got to wake up, put on a leotard and go stretch for two hours and then go into a voice class.5 (42m 1s):Talk about my feelings towards words, study history.1 (42m 8s):I wish I could, I want to go. What if I apply where they, that's a horrible idea. I do this all the time, by the way. But like, it sounds so great when you guys, when you say it, I'm like, wait, I was wasted. I wasted my time there. I wasted my time.5 (42m 26s):I don't know though. Right. Like I think I've spent the rest of my career being like, okay, so what can I take from that? Because that's not the real world. The real world is not that you get to wake up and do that. But like, certainly I've recently gotten back into like stretching and mourning, like yoga in the mornings and stuff. And I'm like, oh, that was something that really works for you back then. Where did that go? And so, right. Like creating my own schedule. I think also I got, I was supposed to get a, B S and not a BFA. So I think I definitely missed some of the, I had more rigidity in my schedule that I think some of my peers and that made me resist the regular general education stuff and spend more time.5 (43m 16s):Like I committed to every directing project that somebody was doing. Right. Like they're in a class. And I was like, I'll do it. When they were like, bring one monologue to class. I was like, well, I'll take up the whole class and bring 10. I was super selfish about theater classes as well. Like if nobody else wanted to go, it was like, well, what are we doing here? I'll go.1 (43m 37s):Wow.5 (43m 38s):So I S I experienced a ton. Right. I was looking through, I, I was like reflecting the other day and I don't understand how I did all of that in four years or four and a half years or whatever, because I probably did at least 10 projects a year. And then I stayed during the summers and did community theater, like a playwrights festival there as well. And so I was just constantly going, but a weird body image thing. Right. So freshmen, what are the freshmen 15? I put on like the freshmen 45 drinking a lot. Right. Partying, a lot, eating food from the food Corp,1 (44m 18s):Chicken fingers, chicken fingers, fingers.5 (44m 22s):So much cheese.1 (44m 25s):Yeah.5 (44m 25s):And then I played my first like bigger role was Toby belching 12th night. So, so, oh, you have extra, you are bigger than other people. Now you're going to play the funny role, right. The drunkard, the, this or that. And I don't know what came too, but I think somebody made a body image comment in my final assessment that year. And regardless of whether that was a positive or negative thing, I committed that summer to not being what they thought I was. Right. I was like, I'm not just this1 (45m 6s):Comment. Do you remember the comment?5 (45m 7s):I don't remember. I just know that there was a catalyst, right. Something happened in that last little meeting where either what was said, or what was not said was not what I wanted to write. And so I was like, I have, I have a fucking chip on my shoulder. I love to prove people wrong. It's like a weird obsession thing as well, prove myself wrong. And so I, I went and I went running and I went back to this like, athlete, like, oh, this is how I preserve myself. And maybe if my feelings were hurt, right. Like I can focus all of that into this.5 (45m 47s):And I lost, like, I lost a lot of weight very quickly. And then that next, you know, I was the romantic leading man, the next fall In Philadelphia for the story. And to the point where like, this is how little I understood. They're like, you're doing the Philadelphia story. Will you come in and read for like the dad role? And I was like, okay. And I was like, oh, this is the dad role. It's a musical, obviously in my brain. And it's not, yeah. It's not, it's, it's Carrie gray Audrey. But I was like, I didn't read the play. I had no idea.5 (46m 27s):And then they cast me as like the leading romantically, not Carrie Grant's character. And I was like, oh no, this is a terrible idea. They don't know that. I can't say6 (46m 43s):I showed up to them like ready to like, 2 (46m 50s):Mickey. Would it be fair to say that, like, you've had to figure, I mean, a lot of people come to acting as a way to figure themselves out. Right? Like a lot of people like the idea of trying on roles. Cause that's what they're also doing with their own identity. And I do see like a little bit of a trend where a lot of people who do it for that reason, maybe didn't get enough reflected back to them when they were a kid or they got reflected only these negative things like you're describing about getting bullied. So, I mean, would it be fair to say that it's taken you oh, a long time to get to know who you really are?2 (47m 31s):Are you still in a process of figuring that out? Like, did you, how much, or how little did you know yourself when you were at theater school?5 (47m 41s):Yeah, totally fair to say. I didn't, I didn't really know myself. I definitely was enjoying the process of getting to know myself, but I didn't really have an understanding of like why I was the way I was. I, and I am definitely still in the process of trying to figure that out. I think I did a play right when I left school called, called awake. And it was about a young man. Who's a poet who's who thought his father was a poet and turns out there was, it was his brother. Like my, my father's brother was my actual father.5 (48m 22s):And it was just like, I don't know myself. I need to go figure out who I am. And that really resonated with me. It was like this idea that like sometimes what we feel is just the, the anxiety or the poles that we feel is just us going while I thought I would have known myself more by now. And so, yeah, definitely still trying to figure it out. My process, creative process. I mean, like that's constantly in flux, never the same. And that's like hockey stuff too. The reason I liked hockey was you could run a set play, and it's always going to be different every single time.5 (49m 4s):And the idea of theater, right? Like you, you get up every night and you do it. And like something about the way that your day went will be reflected in your performance. And, and so that's interesting to me. Yeah.1 (49m 23s):Interesting. I never got that. I never, I never knew that that acting was about me. Do you know what I mean? Like I never got that note. Like that message. I missed that whole thing that like, I could bring my whole self to a role. It doesn't mean that it's me. Like, but that I was allowed to bring my whole self to the role. And in fact, if I did, my acting would be better. Like I miss so much, I'm just so bombed, but I'm learning it. I'm learning it from, from listening to people like you on the podcast and talking with them like, oh, I'm helping to, to, when I teach now, I'm like, bring you, you're helping me.1 (50m 7s):The other thing I want to say is that when I saw you Mickey in my first time seeing you in a lead role or any role was at the greenhouse, I dunno, Athen am in Henry Morris, melting this, play it. And I'd never seen Mickey act. And someone was like, I have my own problems. Like, why am I going? I went to this5 (50m 36s):That's great advice. Yeah.1 (50m 40s):Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I give you terrible advice. I was like, go to LA, you're going to be famous. But like, yeah. Well, anyway, so I saw this play. I saw you in the play and I was like, this is one of the best actors I've ever seen in my life. I, I, I was blown away. I thought, oh, this kid knows what the fuck he's doing. And commits 125% on stage, which is, it just was miles ahead of what everyone else was doing onstage, but not in a real snarky way, in a real working man sort of a way so that you don't hate Mickey because you're like, oh, this is a good person.1 (51m 26s):They just really are committed to what the fuck they're doing. I had never seen that from an actor your age, because we're2 (51m 34s):Obsessed.1 (51m 37s):And I was like,5 (51m 38s):Oh,1 (51m 39s):This kid is the real deal. Like I,5 (51m 43s):That maybe I was avoiding My work. I was avoiding all of the other things that were sitting outside of that. Right. That like were valuable pieces of insight that I could have learned about myself. But like, I, at that point, Jen, like I was moving to LA because I did not have a home. Right. Like it was a warmer climate. Like I had no money to my name whatsoever. I struggled with addiction. I right. Like I had all of these personal life crises going on, but theater is a place where you can go for two hours, whether you're seeing it or whether you're in it and totally just purposefully forget everything else.5 (52m 26s):And so I put off a lot of like personal growth until probably like 30 years old, at least like real is true. Like this might work for you, but it is destructive. I put off that work because I was like, oh, it serves me. Right? Like it's, it gives me energy to put into my career. It is going to better knees somehow to hurt.2 (52m 49s):How do you, how, how does the casting world see you? Like who are you as an actor?5 (52m 56s):That's a good question. I wish I knew. I think I'm, I think I play intense characters that I played, blue collar characters, definitely people with an emotional depth, like an intense, emotional depth. I have, I'm starting to play the good guy. All of a sudden, which is interesting. I like playing the best friend role. And I think I kind of look at every role as the best role, you know, I am there to do something.8 (53m 32s):Yeah. Right.1 (53m 37s):Which is why they want you for the leading man role. Look, this is, it makes perfect sense to me from an outside. I'm like, they want you, so you are finally what I'm hearing too is like, you're finally what you said is like starting to do the work on yourself, right? Like as a person, as a human, as a father, as a, as a, as a husband, as all the things. Right? So it makes perfect sense that you are now playing the good guy. And also that you now are wanted by people to play the lead. Even though you want to play the best friend and you play leads to, I'm not saying you don't want to play the lead, but it, it just all makes sense.1 (54m 18s):It all makes sense that when you work on yourself, if, and if you're lucky and all the things that You5 (54m 24s):End up your1 (54m 24s):Career advancing when you do the work on5 (54m 27s):Yourself1 (54m 28s):Internally, but5 (54m 30s):Then you can decide whether or not things are working. And that's like the, the small business perspective, right? Like you open a small business on the corner, your first year, you're, you're looking at like high expenses, right? Like expense your entire store. You're going to be in the red for a while. Second year, you maybe are developing a customer client relationship. Third year, maybe you have a personal crisis and things take a step back fourth year, whatever fifth year, by the time the fifth year goes, you go, I have some solid data to work with. Right? Maybe this network isn't working for me and I need to go to a different network. And I S I subverted a lot of bad advice. I didn't listen to any of it.5 (55m 10s):I went from New York back to Bloomington, normal Illinois to try to get my degree and failing out again, because I did too much theater up to Minnesota, Chicago, California, Colorado, back to Chicago, and about three years, four years. Yeah. And so then I got back to Chicago and I was like, oh, this is what it's like, when you stay in a place for a little while, maybe people have a chance to respond to the postcards that you're sending up.2 (55m 40s):Yeah. And what's that whole thing, like now, since I've been out of it for so long triangle, when you're first starting out and trying to get people to know you, you said you still send them postcards with your, with your headshot on one side or something.5 (55m 54s):Snail mail, baby headshots. Right. I would print go to Kinko's or FedEx or whatever. I've had tons of headshots, tons of resumes, tons of cover letters. And I'd send them to everybody which maybe is what I'm learning. Now. Thankfully, I have representation. I've had representation for a really long time. Is that like, maybe be targeted with the people that you want to work with and focus on that rather than like, will anybody like me please will anybody, But maybe I had a better, I I've never thought about this. I submitted to two agencies or one agency that called me, and it was a really big name in Chicago.5 (56m 39s):And they called me in and they kept calling me Maki, like, Hey, Maki, come here. And then they were like, yeah, my name is Mickey. Sorry. That was the thing that they call me,1 (56m 59s):Excuse me.5 (57m 1s):And I was like, well,1 (57m 2s):That's the greatest fucking name I've ever heard of. I mean, it's not your name, but it's a great name. Yeah.5 (57m 8s):They brought me into the room and they're like, okay, give us your monologue. But look at the wall. They're so spot on the wall, look at it. So I did the whole thing and they were like, how are you expecting to have a good relationship with casting? If you just stare while you talk the entire time. And I was like, oh, I thought you said, like stare at the wall and talk. And they were like, you know what I think, like with your look and your experience, we could do a trial contract. And I was like, maybe finally at that point, did I have the guts in my life to be like, I don't need just anyone to be my friend or to work with me.2 (57m 48s):Maki need somebody who can really connect with5 (57m 51s):It knows my name, you know, that read the email. And then sure enough, I, I reached out to somebody who I knew was an agent and I had a meeting with them and I was like, Hey, is that how all of them should go? Because if it is, I'll just take the contract and I'll work in the industry and whatever. But if it's not, I'm not going to sign with somebody who's a Dick. Who's like too overwhelmed to actually build new relationships. Let me go and focus on somebody who like, wants to have a conversation about what I think of the industry and my place in that.2 (58m 23s):Oh, it makes me sick to think about how many people who are in those positions of power. It's, that's all they're interested in is the sort of the power play of it all. Like this thing that we start doing when we're kids and for some people we don't ever outgrow it, which is like, I don't need you. You need me, you know, the way that I show my, you know, whatever that ability in the world is to reject you instead of, you know, to be inclusive or, or even just, I mean, just a kind thing, because by the way, nobody has, is named Maki. So they should have had a sense of like, wait, why are we saying this? Right. I mean, right.2 (59m 3s):Shouldn't they have had some idea that5 (59m 6s):I do. Like, maybe I'm a sucker and lately I've been trying to think of like, what are all of the reasons that people could act like that? Because I don't get it right. Like, I don't get like, the I'm going to go brag to people about how I treated this person, like shit. And I, I think maybe it like it, it is just a really deep, deep, personal thing that's going on. That's totally clouding. Then being aware of how they're treating other people at all. Because I don't, I it's gotta be because I don't, I I've never heard anybody brag to me about how they treated somebody like shit in my entire life. I know that that's a thing that generally, as humans, we feel deep shame about and how maybe that deep shame manifests is just constantly being so focused on, on you and the things that you have to do and, you know, maintaining your own personal level of success and survival.5 (59m 59s):It's this fucked up survival tactic of like nobody else matters only what I'm doing matters. Maybe. I dunno. Maybe I'm just a sucker.1 (1h 0m 8s):No, I think it's, I think you're right. Like I think people get so caught up in their own process. They don't even know some people do, but I think that's like the exceptional sociopath psychopath, but like most people are just like low level nurses. We're all such low level narcissists mixed with our childhood trauma. We don't even realize what we're doing. I swear because I have confronted people, you know, that I've, I've confronted big wigs and said, do you realize that you're talking like this person is a piece of shit and they're like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, oh my God, most people don't understand.2 (1h 0m 50s):And most people are so far from understanding that the, that the farthest they'll ever get with that is just a defensive will know you're the asshole for pointing out. Right. I mean, that's, that's, that's usually the limit. It never ceases to amaze me. And yet it always amazes me. No, that's the same thing. how with, you know, my, the thing I'm always interested is getting from surface to depth with people. But I think like maybe 98% of the population is just really interested in staying or maybe it's just because of where I'm living. I don't know. But I, I find that not only do people not want to go from surface to depth, they're frightened and weirded out by you wanting to do that.2 (1h 1m 35s):You know what I mean? Because my thing is always like, we all know that the weather is how it is. Like, can we just like, let's skip that part. Let's go to the next thing. And people don't like that. They really don't like that.1 (1h 1m 47s):No people are not interested in that because what they have to, I am convinced that at the, at the core of that is, oh, one day I'm going to die and everyone I know is going to die.2 (1h 1m 59s):And1 (1h 1m 59s):If we talk about real, if we talk about real stuff, it'll inevitably lead me to, oh my God, everyone I love is going to die and I'm going to die. And I can't handle that. So I'm going to do drugs or do anything else instead, or not, or talk about the,5 (1h 2m 13s):Not the talking about the weather, but that's where I'm at right now is that I'm like, oh, the most important thing that we could do now is acknowledged the back that we're going to die2 (1h 2m 23s):Because it's so much freedom by the way, because it's not like, sorry to spoiler alert, but everybody is going to die. So like let's instead of being, spending your entire life afraid of that thing, embrace it because you're not going to die right now necessarily, you know, like you could make right now more interesting, right.5 (1h 2m 43s):Enjoy right now. Right. In a way1 (1h 2m 46s):Even noticed right now, just notice that we're actually alive. And I, and that we are here now doing things, talking, eating, all the things that we do it's happening. I think that that's what I've come to in this podcast. And in my life is like if the most I ever get to is, oh, this is actually happening. I'm here. This is going on. How I feel about it as how I feel about it, but this is what's going on. Acknowledging them. That's going to have to be enough because to go deep with people is such a treat and so rare. But like, I have to still stay true to the acknowledging part.1 (1h 3m 28s):Like, oh, you, you might be uncomfortable, but I'm going to acknowledge in my own way that, that, that we're all going to die in. And that's part of the impermanence. I'm going to acknowledge it to myself because if I don't, it just really leads to2 (1h 3m 40s):You just feel so isolated and desperate and yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway, speaking of isolated and desperate and alone, you mentioned going through some issues with addiction. How, how do you, could you say anything about that and how you, how you got ahead of it?5 (1h 4m 0s):Yeah. Never out of it, right? Like I am an addict through and through, right? Like it's anything that make me feel better and then like learning what those good things are and what leads to right. This path of destruction. I think really early on, I was constantly the kid that was if he only put his mind towards things, but I think if you only focused on those thing, and so that got me on this idea of like, whatever it is, and this is where obsession came in, right. Like if I could just focus on stuff and then I would dive 110%. And so what were the things that allowed me to do that?5 (1h 4m 41s):Right? Like first it was, you know, cigarettes, right? Like I could just sit there and read a play and read another play and smoke cigarettes, I guess. Right. Like definitely alcohol is in there. It's not like my primary. I, I do not go into functioning or nonfunctioning relationships where this, where I'm like, oh, I need this to function. Or I need this not to be totally dysfunctional. But early in my life, it was definitely a medicine of some sort. Right. Like I was definitely looking at it for relief. I drank a lot and drank, it was binge. Like, that was the way that we drank in high school and college.5 (1h 5m 23s):You had three hours to drink. You better drink a lot of it. Right.9 (1h 5m 27s):So true.5 (1h 5m 30s):So that was a thing. And then Adderall became a thing for me where it was like, this is something that allowed me to sit and work for hours on end. And certainly I think that, like, if I'm going to go to a psychiatrist, they would be like, I think you definitely have some traits that are right there with add or ADHD, but I did it. And so I would just abuse on my own. Right. Like, and I, I looked at it as the investment opportunity of a lifetime. Right. It was like, you're going to constantly have this on you. You're going to constantly be taking it. You're going to constantly be working. And that led to cigarettes. Right. That led to me avoiding all of my own personal shit.5 (1h 6m 13s):And then, right. Like the way I quote unquote got out of the throws of it was total collapse2 (1h 6m 24s):All the way to the bottom5 (1h 6m 26s):All the way. Right. Many times where I thought that I was going to die. Right. That I thought I was like, I would not sleep at night and a very functioning. Right. Nobody, nobody knew at least that I know of. Right. Like, I'm sure, like now looking back like, oh, something's going on there? Like, but it was a whole production for me. Right. Like I had the hand sanitizer to stop my hands from smelling like smoke. Right. So nobody needed to know that, like that was my preparation to get myself right. For, you know, the audition. And then it was, you know, I've got gum, I've got Gatorade to keep my body, like all of the, the electrolytes in my body up because I haven't slept in two days, I've got like coffee.5 (1h 7m 17s):And so like financially fell apart. Right. And no good reason. Right. Like best point in my career probably was like, you know, commercial money coming in, episodic money coming in. And for me, this was just like, great. Double-down on my investment. Great. Like be better, be better. And in my version of better was more, more altered, I guess. So never out of it and re emotionally my relationships fell apart. Right. I stopped paying attention to what other people, how other people were reacting around me.5 (1h 7m 58s):And that kind of led into acting, I guess, a little bit that like, it wasn't maybe until like five years ago. And Jen, this is where I'm a little bit jealous of you. Is that like, I did think that what you said earlier was like, I never considered myself, like the main part of gen actor being so valuable to whatever character I'm playing. I never considered that, the shit that I was trying in rehearsal, like just like a kid in a box, like had real time attacks on the other actors that I'm working with.1 (1h 8m 31s):I never considered that either. Like, but you're right. Like, it goes both ways, right.5 (1h 8m 37s):If you're in a, if you're in a meeting with a coworker at an office and they never focused on one idea long enough for everyone to kind of like gel with the idea, you don't work with that person for very long, even if what they're doing is an abusive or hurtful or anything like that, it's just not conducive to like, right. Especially for theater, where in Chicago, right? Like you get $300 for an eight week stipend. And so you better really get everybody read it better, really be getting something out of that rehearsal time. And I was selfish, you know, like this is about me and my journey and my character and, and everybody else better fight for that.5 (1h 9m 17s):And there's, and that's what conflict is. And that's what drama is.2 (1h 9m 22s):Well, what are your feelings about that? The stories that we hear about famous actors who do that, who still do that, that's still their process. Does it make you mad?5 (1h 9m 31s):Yeah, I think it's so misguided. Right. And I'm thankful that I've had enough experiences where I'm like, oh, you're, you were kind of the Dick there that could be bad. That could develop. Right. Or somebody who pulled me aside and was like, you know, that just wasn't necessary or whatever, really, really early on, I moved to New York and I was in a play festival. And it was like about what is that? The witch who they shove into the oven, what was that called? The Hansel Hansel and Gretel. I was Honsel I guess. And we were pushing the witch into the fire and they were like, yeah, you used a broom and we didn't have a broom.5 (1h 10m 17s):And so like fresh out of college, Mickey was like here, hand on the butt. And afterwards this woman came up to me and she was like, don't do that ever again. And I was like, oh my God, what did I do? I have no idea. I'm so sorry. And at first I was really kind of like, come on, like, what are we going to do? Like you needed to get it. So it was my first time being like, oh wow. And she was older than I was. And so to me that told me that she's been hurt in this process and that through whatever trauma that she's been through, like this is not the, the road to working with other people.5 (1h 11m 2s):Right. And so there's just like little moments like that, that I think if you're so blind you're so like, I need to get to the top. I needed to get to the top. I needed to get to the top. It's really easy to just that everybody is being1 (1h 11m 16s):Right. Right. It's like, that's5 (1h 11m 19s):Like1 (1h 11m 20s):This whole reckoning, this whole reckoning that the arts and humanity and the U S and everyone is doing, which is like, that may be true. You said something really important to me, which is, it may be true that people are overly sensitive. You didn't say this part, but I, I think people can be, oh, I can be overly sensitive. That's for fucking shirt. And it's also true that that is not the way to working with others. So like, both are true. Like I have sensitive issues. And you notice that like, doing that kind of behavior is actually not conducive to doing good art and creating and not, and getting jobs, the whole thing.1 (1h 12m 2s):So like, it's interesting. It's like you took the note and actually took it. Whether you took it all in or whatever, you took the note, but a lot of these dudes aren't taking the note. They're not getting the note. They're seeing it as the people are over sensitive, which they might be, but they're also not taking the note, like take the note, you know,5 (1h 12m 21s):I take the note. Absolutely. That's something like in college that we were constantly reminded. It's like, you don't have to respond. Just take it, write it down and think about it for a, for an eye and then com

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God does answer prayers, and many times the answer is a resounding yes. But those yeses look vastly different – and unexpected. Today we dive into the affirmatives and learn that there’s even a proper response for those, too!

  What’s better than a little isolation? Well, us hosts here, at Nightcaps at the Theater don’t recommend kinky games with scumbags in the middle of nowhere…wait did you say Kobe Beef is involved…tempting, but no dice. Tonight, we look at Mike Flanagan’s Netflix adaptation of Daddy King’s Gerald’s Game. This movie will have you recall memories from a traumatic past, shiver violently at that Midnight Cowboy glancing at you from the dark corner of your room, and you can forget about sleeping … we got work to do pumpkin! It’ll be a Total Eclipse of the Heart but, Mr. Bright Eyes, please don’t turn around. Hey Mr. Sandman bring us a dream…and while you are at it don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe to us on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, etc! What are ya waitin for? The next eclipse? Tonight, on the Marquee: “I could get out of those handcuffs if I tried, Sure Jan.” We are watching Gerald’s Game. Not Kinky …” Kingy.” The Gerald’s Game with Lindsay Lohan and One Muppet. Why not Maine? Because… George Costanza as Jessie. Dog/Cat Eating Owner Time Limit. Break Me Off A Piece of that Flesh of Gerald’s Arm. The “Swing/Bench.” Suck Dem Toes. Daddy King and Joe as a Test Subject. Loving the “Degloving.” “Love Life…is the Same as it Was”   “Jerry…Arnold…Stoop Kid’s Game.” “The Fact that Mike Flanagan didn’t do Pet Semetary.” – Jonathan was Gooped. “Hm.” - Matt’s Initial Review  Cohen, Duffer, or Duplass? “What’s Reading?” Stephen King = Good Shit. “No Thank You, Not Interested.” – Moonlight Man Selling Time Shares. “ “I Don’t f*&ks with “Yeppers.” “Rosanne Barr Excuse.” Jonathan Drunkenly Explaining Ka. Scooby Says “Ru Ran Ru Rit!” Art Provided By: John Cafiero @bonehaver420 Music: "Riviera Jazz" Provided By: Crazy G 

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A podcast... on a Saturday!?!?! Yeppers! WOR 2019 continues even over the weekend. Today you can hear that group of people that Nikki feels just fine discriminating against, Obadiah watches Casablanca, the deepest pool in the world is built, Candy Thresholds... and WARRIOR CATS!

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The Buzzword is “Social Justice.” But if you ask people to define what that means, you’ll get a profusion of contradicting definitions. Paul Seger, General Director of Biblical Ministries Worldwide joins Mike and Heather to tackle the issue from a Gospel perspective. Are Christians supposed to care for the needs of the downtrodden, the persecuted, and the abandoned? Yeppers! But roll up your sleeves, friend! There’s so much more!

Live Right Now - Episode 011 – How Sweet It Is!   Artificial Sweeteners: Pink, Blue and Yellow deception Questionable, yet widely consumed for decades, artificial sweeteners are a creation of man for people who cannot eat sugar or wish to reduce sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners are in a dizzying array of things like frou-frou coffee, baked goods, toothpaste, mouthwash, gum and nicotine gum, yogurt, children’s chewable vitamins, and on and on. Lulled to sleep by a 100-year fairy tale, you’ve been obediently sleepwalking; comfortable in a stupor of blind obedience to a food system that doesn’t have your best interest at heart. Your birthright of health is under attack by unholy compounds not meant to enter your holy temple. Sigh… choosing man over God seems to be today’s egoic mantra considering Mother Gaia has provided virtually everything humankind needs to live abundantly. We are a peculiar species with an unquenchable ego that deliberately chooses man’s creations over Gods. Ignoring everything divine mother nature generously provided from the garden to sustain health, repair and rebuild our temples. You needn’t look further than the Earth’s garden for raw honey, maple or brown rice syrup, date and coconut sugars, xylitol, stevia, organic agave, fruit concentrates, and yacon syrup. Sweet n’ Low, AKA, saccharin, the Latin word for sugar, was accidently discovered in 1897 by a John’s Hopkins researcher seeking new uses for coal tar derivatives. Coal tar is a byproduct of the production of coke, a solid fuel that contains mostly carbon, and coal gas. Splenda, which has a chlorinated base like DDT, was discovered in 1976 when a British scientist misheard instruction about testing a substance. Instead, he tasted it, realizing it was highly sweet.  Fast forward: Case Western Reserve University of Medicine reports Splenda promotes “bad” bacteria and intestinal inflammation in human patients. Their study found over a short period, Splenda worsened gut inflammation with mice with Crohn’s-like symptoms.  At high temperatures, sucralose may break down and generate harmful, cancerous substances. According to the online patent, aspartame / Nutra Sweet, is created from GMO e coli bacteria. Yeppers, bugs are cultivated and fed so they’ll poop proteins that contain the amino acid used to make aspartame. Really? Your Nutra Sweet can cause headaches, memory loss, seizures, induce brain tumors, vision loss, coma and cancer and interact with all antidepressants, L-dopa, coumadin, hormones, insulin, cardiac meds, and worsens symptoms of fibromyalgia, MS, Lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue and depression. Fooled again. Not much love here.   Links mentioned in the show: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2309727 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507461 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17805418 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814609005378 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800291 https://www.livestrong.com/article/444353-negative-effects-of-artificial-sweeteners/ A Brief and Bizarre History of Artificial Sweeteners Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame Artificial Sweetener Splenda Could Intensify Symptoms in Those with Crohn’s Disease   Live Right Now theme music is “future soundtrack II” by Adam Henry Garcia from the Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0  

 If you stare too long at a person and they notice, you could find yourself in an awkward situation that requires, “Lucy, you got some ‘splaining to do”. This happened to me once when I saw the most beautiful little girl – she was maybe 4 years old – in a diner. I was eating alone and noticed her and her mother at an adjacent table. As a portrait artist, the human face is a wonderland for me and this little girl looked like a true angel. I didn't know I was staring like a creepy stalker creep, until I realized the mother was watching me carefully with a look that told me she would not hesitate to stick a fork into my eye socket if it came to it. In my mind, I was sneaking glances for future reference because I do a lot of angel images in my day job as a tombstone artist and it was less creepy than pulling out my phone and asking like some buck toothed hillbilly, “C'n I take yer li'l girl's pitcher?” What I did do is apologize and explain why I kept staring at her daughter, which seemed to help mama to relax a tad. All that being said, I'm a big fan of people watching and in my travels, I get the opportunity to do a lot of it. So here are a few stories about the interesting results from that activity.  I'm Michael Blackston and we're taking a deep dive into my Funny, Messy Life.   Canadians R Nuts  Because my travels take me along the coast of South Carolina, I find myself pretty frequently in the vicinity of Myrtle Beach. The actual business I do work for is in Conway, SC just outside of Myrtle Beach and to be honest, during the tourist season, I usually stay well inland away from the traffic and the crazy people who really believe they look like models in their way too tiny bikinis and shorts/sandals with socks combos. While it’s true that there are plenty of young people to look at whom, (I’m told) fill out their attire nicely, I'm a married man and thus, wouldn’t know for sure. What I can positively tell you is that for every cutie in dental floss, there are five others who picture themselves on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Addition (not that I would know what that cover looks like – I'm just taking a friend's word for it), when in reality, they would do well to grace the front of Ugly Tree Weekly. I can say that because I’m no Art Garfunkle either, but at least I know it.  However that message isn’t the focus of this article.  Canadians are nuts. There’s the central storyline.  Now before you get all angry and throw pieces of ham that for some weird reason you’ve decided to call bacon at me, allow me to explain.  Somebody informed the Canadians that we don’t have much of a winter in the deep south and by storming the beaches down here, they can take advantage of all the off-season golf and ocean wading at which they can shake a hockey stick. That’s fine for the most part. Our winters are mild compared to the Great White North and the golf in Myrtle Beach is second to none.  But the ocean in March is colder than Chilly Willy’s butt crack. And guess what? They’re out in it! Lean in closer … they aren’t just walking in cool sand at the edge of the water or even wading in to their knees. They’re splashing around in the waves like it’s July 4th and someone placed lit firecrackers under their fanny packs.  During the off season, I stay in one of the luxurious hotels along the oceanfront because during the winter, they’re hungry for visitors and you can usually negotiate a nice room for a stick of gum or a few cartoon impressions. So when I decided it was time to take a leisurely stroll on the beach after a long day of etching, you can imagine my shock when, after enjoying the sight of Canadians prancing gaily in the tide, I allowed the slightest morsel of foam to touch my toes and subsequently went into instant hypothermia.  I suppose I could have been more polite with my vocal reaction so that my northern brethren might experience the hospitality that was foretold concerning we southern gentlemen. But alas, I elicited a cry of, “SWEET MOTHER OF MERCY YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY NUTJOBS FROM THE COLDEST REACHES OF CHILLY WILLY'S BUTTCRACK!”  They appeared undaunted by my scathing remark and simply returned to their wave swells of frolic and merriment. Meanwhile, sea life jumped out of the surf and grabbed onto me trying to get a taste of my body heat.  I figure it would be about the same if I went up there next summer and turned on the heat. But have you ever felt cold like the ocean at the end of winter? Maybe you have.  Polar bear jumps.  Those are popular around here because you can get a group of people together and make t-shirts and everybody jumps in cold water to show some disease a thing or two. I’m not making fun; it really does help create awareness and serves well to poke people in their action bits. I’ve never done it myself, choosing instead to write or speak in a temperature controlled environment about the need to kick something bad in the junk. But I have close friends who have put on the trunks of our neighbors to the north and jumped into water fit only to refrigerate sides of beef.  I’m told the experience is something akin to this:  You arrive at the edge of a designated lake to meet with your fellow brave jumpers, all of whom are standing by the waterside breaking up the solid layer of ice so that no one gets caught under it, therefore creating the need to organize a follow up polar bear jump for awareness to not jump into water covered in a solid layer of ice.  Everyone comes equipped with a strategy. They see themselves running like warriors into the depths all the way up to their necks and treading the water in a happy aqua-dance of victory and good vibrations. Their tears of achievement will flow down their bodies and warm them because the cold discomfort is no match for their awesomeness. They'll then emerge from the lake in slow motion while somewhere in the distance the theme from Chariots Of Fire is played through a sky filled with bald eagles. While they were in the water, someone replaced all of their towels with American flags and they are draped in them as they are met by adoring supporters. As the music comes to a dramatic close, they gather the flags in their fists and raise them high above their heads, screaming “ADRIAN!”  At least that’s the plan.  What really happens is they get out of their vehicles, run to the edge of the water with their arms wrapped tightly around their bodies and jump up and down while nervously giggling with their fellow jumpers about how nuts this is. Someone says, “GO!” and they all run screaming into the water; some to their necks and some to about the topmost skin layer of one toe. They continue to scream as if they’re being torn asunder until they can take it no more and turn running back to the shore to roll and writhe on the ground wrapped in a towel. It can be considered a religious experience because God’s name is frequently mentioned.  In some cases, the ruckus may disturb a group of Canadians who have been silently resting completely submerged in the middle of the lake and they’ll pop their heads up out of the water like glacier moles and begin to point and laugh.  Differences in culture interest me and I know that’s all this is.  I was raised in an area of the world where some people will wear earmuffs when the temperature is in the high sixties. Canadians were reared under holes in ice ponds and are brought to the surface by grabbing onto a passing fishing line and yanked up by a burly fellow in walrus skins. If they see their shadow, they dive back beneath the ice and stay there for six more weeks playing Marco Polo with leopard seals.  That, or they drive down to Myrtle Beach and get a great price on a hotel room.  Either way, it’s just nuts! ______________  Some places that are good for people watching are also good places to get a disease that will eat your flesh from the inside out. You have to weigh your options – get some good material or get leprosy. I'll take what's behind curtain number two, Bob! That's the game you play while making ...   Observations From The Waiting Room  Sitting in a doctor’s office is interesting, educational, and scary all rolled into one germ laden bacterial infection of an experience.  I know, I know – if I’m there, I’m not helping the situation and no one wants to suck up my funk any more than I want to suck up theirs. That doesn’t stop me from being a little judgmental as I sit and stare into the faces of misery that surround me on all sides.  If you’re a people watcher, this is a fantastic place to get your fix, but beware. Making eye contact is usually a bad idea. Sooner or later you’ll meet the gaze of someone who will take it as an opportunity to annoy you until the blessing of either you or them being called back into the land of alcohol swabs, tongue depressors, and needles that will "only sting for a second".  One recent visit has wielded a haul of personalities to observe, so let’s just jump right into the cesspool. This room was host to any number of these … The “Shout It From The Rooftops” Loud Talker – I list them first because they command the attention of the room. They can’t be ignored, no matter how many squares of gauze you jam in your ears and cover with that medical tape that will peel the skin right off your flesh when you remove it. There’s no need to try and read a little from one the magazines that must be crawling with the "ick" of everyone who picked it up before you; you’ll not be able to concentrate. Instead you and all your waiting room buddies will be regaled with whatever happens to be on their mind at the time. It might be politics, it might be the details of the rot they have all over their foot, or it could even be tales of yore. The guy I was listening to wanted us to know how bad an idea it was to eat sardines and chase them with beer from a cup that's been sitting out for a couple of days. He thinks it's funny now. From the look on her face, the lady sitting beside him doesn't think it was so funny. However it manifests, you can bet that everyone in the building will be able to hear it. The “How’s Ya Mama ‘Nim?” Church Saint – You haven’t seen them in a long time and you don’t feel like talking at the moment. Your head feels like it’s carrying about twenty tons of gravel and the pressure is causing all manner of liquid to leak from your nose. You wouldn’t have sat there if you’d realized it would be in the proximity of anyone you know, but because they always sit in the back pew at church, you failed to recognize them. Now you’re stuck smiling like a crazed hyena so as not to be insulting as you let them know the latest buzz about the exciting life of your extended family. You may try to throw subtle hints like being short and choppy with your delivery, burying yourself in a book, or screaming uncontrollably in fake pain. But they'll not be deterred in their quest for any glimmer of gossip they can sink their teeth into. The “Hey, Buddy - Let’s Be Buddies Forever And Ever” Close Sitter – I usually find this to be a guy. I don’t know why, but I rarely see a female being a space invader in this way. He may be someone you’ve met before or he may be a total stranger. Whichever he is, rest assured that you’ll know ALLLLLL about him before the nurse comes to the door and gloriously shouts one of your names. Not only does he think you need to know every single sick detail about his condition; he also wants to show you. Go on …. Tell him you'd rather not because you honor his privacy and he …. really …. doesn’t need to. Wish as you like, but that conversation is moving by that time on the wheels of a statement something along the lines of, “Ain’t she a beaut?!” He has coffee breath, which would have been fine; you do too. But he has the talent to expertly aim his directly up your nose by leaning in so close to you when he speaks that you’d be doing well to squeeze a quarter in between you sideways. You’ll notice the need to apply the lunatic smile of a comic book villain with him as well if you don’t want to seem rude. There will also be a lot of head nodding on your part and the uttering of words like, “Mmm Hmm” and “Uhh Huh”. I like to toss in a sarcastically laced, “Yeppers!” The “If I Sit In This Corner Quietly, No One Will Know I’m Kind Of A Leper” Introvert – I feel for them. They are probably not a leper. They probably simply have a cold, high blood pressure, or the flesh-eating bacteria I mentioned. The cute thing is they thought that by sitting in the furthest corner from the front desk and becoming as small as they possibly could that they might avoid detection. Sorry, but that won’t happen. This one was a younger woman who was being addressed way too closely by someone who wants to show her a nasty bunion and the look on her face was priceless. Poor girl. I suppose I could've created a diversion like a gentleman and got the close talker to come over to me by saying something like, “Man oh man, have I ever wanted to get a gander at a nasty bunion!” But I’m afraid I couldn’t. She kept the close talker busy and he wasn't bothering me, soooooo ...... The “Isn’t It Cute The Way My Small Child Runs Around Like A Rabid Gazelle?” Giggle Parent – There’s always at least one. You can’t blame the kid. Children run around like rabid gazelles. But as parents, our job is to keep that activity to the appropriate times and places. The waiting room of a doctor’s office doesn’t feel to me like the best place for that since nearly everyone in there isn’t feeling well and tends to be irritable. Honestly, I’ve never once witnessed a patient lash out at a child or a parent in this situation, but I know what I’ve thought behind the dark, snot curtains of my mind. The problem isn’t even a parent who is there for their own care but couldn’t get a babysitter and barely has the strength to chase their child. It’s the parent that thinks it’s funny and simply laughs when your foot - you know, the one wrapped up like a mummy that you’re there getting seen about - gets stepped on over and over again as the sweet thing circles your chair screaming, “I da indian, loo da cowboy!” So here’s a disclaimer: It Ain’t Cute! Your kid is cute, yes. As far as being a small human person with adorable little legs that move in blur-speed and tiny hands covered in peanut butter and spit, they’re swell. But your not doing anything to tame them in this environment when you could, but obviously don’t want to, well …. I hope the darling is twice as “cute” once you’re trapped with him in the insanely small room that will be your cell for the next seven hours while you wait for the doctor to come in. The Old Person Who Has The Answers To The World’s Problems – I'll reference these people in the next story, but they deserve a mention here because there’s always one of them waiting to see their physician unless the waiting room is just one of their stops on the daily agenda designed to gather intel about who may or may not be about to die. They're also loud and proud with their opinions and usually have a great deal to say, aimed in the direction of the nurse’s desk, about the state of things in the medical and pharmaceutical industries and the way it used to be done in the Days of Good Ol'.  As for me, I fall into the Just Leave Me Alone And We’ll Get Along Fine category, but as I sat waiting for my name to be called, there was little girl in bows next to me who was adorable – and wouldn't stop looking at me.  Guess what, little girl, you just made my list. __________________  One of the most often asked questions I get is how I find the time to write. Another biggie is where do I get my ideas? The answer to both of these questions is: The public, man – the public. Unfortunately, even then, there are times when ...   I Can’t Work Under These Conditions  One of the most difficult problems one runs into when trying to keep consistent content is finding a good place to create it. Ideally, the perfect place would be a quiet spot where the artist may shut off from the world around him and bask in sweet, sweet concentration. It’s a dream place devoid of to-do lists and needy toddlers and angst riddled teenagers. It’s a cave of darkness with only a desk, a computer, and a lamp – nothing else; no means of communication for the duration of the time allotted for good, honest creation. That’s the place that would be best, but it’s a place that does not exist for most of us.  So what’s the solution? Ask any guru and they’ll tell you that concentration and being able to be left alone to create is paramount to being at your absolute best. Unfortunately, all the artists I know are in the same boat with me. We don’t have a home large enough to dedicate the room that I've described. We don’t have careers that allow for that time unless we get up earlier than the birds. And although I’ve tried the early to rise technique, I have the aforementioned teenager and toddler that make getting to bed at a decent enough hour for that a near impossibility. What we’re left with is keeping our creative materials handy at all times and taking the opportunities when and where they present themselves.  I find myself many mornings at a table in a fast food restaurant typing away to keep up with the demands of having a consistently released blog. And it gets hard because old people gather at fast food restaurants to gossip. To be clear, I love old people and am on a fast track to that description, myself. But they're hard of hearing most of the time, so their conversations are delivered so that the hearing impaired are able to understand what's being said. That means I get to hear it, whether I want to concentrate or not.  It’s all around me. They sip their coffees and one by one they enter, taking the seat they’re accustomed to sitting in every morning.  The problem is that I get distracted listening to them because they can be so darn entertaining. A typical conversation will go something like this: (I’ll give the example in a play script style because it’s kinda my thing)  OM1 (Old Man 1) enters slowly, holding a cup of coffee, and sits at a small table with four chairs. He blows on his coffee and carefully takes a sip as OM2 (Old Man 2) enters from the same direction, also holding a cup of coffee.  OM2. COLD OUT THAYAH, AIN’T IT? (I should interrupt to address the fact that since I am from the deep south, all dialogue will be bent toward a southern dialect, as it is the truest experience I can convey. Let us continue.)  OM1.     S’POSED-TA BE THAT WAY FOR A GOOD PIECE.  OM2.     WAD’N ALWAYS THATTA WAY.  OM1.     NOW DON’T START IN ON THAT GLOBAL WARMIN’ HOCKEY. (I should interrupt to explain that “hockey” is one of the words old southerners use instead of the “S” word. Lots of others do use the “S” word, but this is family oriented content. Moving on.)  OM2.     I AIN’T SAYIN’ THAT, IT’S JUST COLD. MY HIP’S LOCKIN’ UP LIKE A DANG STUBBURN OL' MULE.  OL1 (Old Lady 1) enters with a cup of coffee and sits at a table adjacent to OM1 and OM2.  OL1.     YOUR HIP WOULDN’T LOCK UP LIKE THAT IF YOU’D GO GIT YOURSELF WUN'NIM CORDA-ZONE SHOTS.  OM2.     I DON’T NEED NO SHOT. IT’LL WORK OUT IN A MINUTE.  OL1.     I’M JUST SAYIN’ IT AIN’T GONNA FEEL NO BETTUH TILL YA DO. STARTIN’ TO BE COLDER THAN I REMEMBER IT EVUH BEIN’. BRRR!  OM1.     NOW DON’T START IN ON THAT GLOBAL WARMIN’ HOCKEY!  OL1 waves a dismissive hand towards OM1 and tries to carefully sip her coffee. OL2 (Old Lady 2) enters with a tray holding coffee and a biscuit. She sits across the table from OL1.  OL2.     YOU KNOW WHO BELIEVES THAT GLOBAL WARMIN’?  OM1.     AIN’T NOBODY GOT ANY SENSE BELIEVES INNAT!  OM2.     PROPPERGANDER!  OL2.     THAT SMITH GIRL AT THE BANK. SHE AIN’T BEEN GOIN’ TO CHURCH, I HEAR.  OM1.     YOU KNOW WHO ELSE AIN’T BEEN T’CHURCH LATELY?  OL1.     I KNOW THE PASTOR’S WIFE OVER TO TH’FIRST BETHEL CHURCH OF THE NAZARINE OF GOD’S BEEN SKIPPIN’ OUT ON THE GOOD SERVICE AN’ GOIN TO THAT EARLY SERVICE.  OM2.     THEY CALL THAT CONTEMP’RY.  OL2.     THEY DON’T HAVE DINNERS MUCH AT THAT CONTEMP’RY SERVICE. PROB’LY SHOULDN’T NEITHER. ETHEL SNITFRENCH STARTED GOIN' TO THAT SERVICE AND NOW SHE BAKES THE AWFULLEST COBBLERS. GOT STUFF LIKE APRICOTS IN ‘EM. (Shakes her head – disgusted) I COULDN’T STOMACH IT.  OL1.     NOW, I ALWAYS SAID IT AIN’T RIGHT TO BAKE A COBBLER WITH WEIRD FRUIT. KEEP IT TO APPLE, BLACKBERRY, OR PEACH. JESUS LIKES A PEACH COBBLER.  OM2.     I NEED A COBBLER. MIGHT HEP M’HIP.  OL2.     HOW’S A COBBLER GONE HEP Y’HIP?  OM2.     IF M’SHOES FIT ME BETTUH.  OL1.     THAT AIN’T WHAT WE’RE TALKIN’ ABOUT.  OM2.     DON’T MATTER. AIN’T NO COBBLERS AROUND NO MORE ANYHOW.  OL2.     AIN’T NOTHIN’ GOOD ANYMORE. WORLD’S GONE TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET SINCE THEY STARTED THEM CONTEMP’RY SERVICES OVER TO TH’CHURCH. THAT’S THE ONE THE PREACHER’S WIFE’S BEEN GOIN’ TO, Y’KNOW.  OL1.     AND THEY KEEP IT S'COLD IN THERE SUNDAY MORNIN’S, TOO!  OM2.     WELL YA BETTUH GIT USED TO IT. THEY SAY IT’S GONE BE COLD FER APIECE. WADD’N ALWAYS THATTAWAY.  OM1.     NOW DON’T START IN ON THAT GLOBAL WARMIN’ HOCKEY!  How am I supposed to get anything done with all that going on in the background? I suppose I could put in some ear buds and write to the tranquil sound of a trickling brook or the soothing melodies of Pat Boone singing jazz versions of heavy metal music (it exists), but I’d still get interrupted somehow. There’s a lot to be said in favor of a man-cave, but unless someone puts me in their will and leaves me the keys to a manor with a secret dungeon behind a bookcase, I’ll likely never have one.  And after all, there is something sort of special about sitting at a table across the room from people who have amazing stories to tell and would probably be glad to share them if I asked. Perhaps one day I will get up the courage, but until then I’ll sit here and drink a cup of coffee as I try to piece together something that makes sense between the next jab at anything “new-fangled” and the complaints about the weather.  It is kind of chilly out there today, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary. And I’d have to be nuts to mention anything about the global warming theory … I mean “hockey.”  The way the world is nowadays, you have to be careful if you're gonna do any people watching, but I'm gonna draw the line at being careful. I won't stop because it gives me too much great material. And if I get a fork in my eye socket, I'll just apologize and walk away, leaving a trail of blood behind me.

Q: God is supposed to be all-powerful, right? A: Yeppers. Q: So how are there things God CAN’T do? A: Totally reasonable question. Come and find out. #MoThings

Q: God is supposed to be all-powerful, right? A: Yeppers. Q: So how are there things God CAN’T do? A: Totally reasonable question. Come and find out. #MoThings

Q: God is supposed to be all-powerful, right? A: Yeppers. Q: So how are there things God CAN’T do? A: Totally reasonable question. Come and find out. #MoThings

Q: God is supposed to be all-powerful, right? A: Yeppers. Q: So how are there things God CAN’T do? A: Totally reasonable question. Come and find out. #MoThings

As you may already know I LOVE creating my life by following the flow of each moment. Yeppers! It's all about following the clues of life without a view point. When we live this way it enables us to dive into our true awareness of being (and be our Real Raw self). So, when I met Danielle, I knew we had to have an interview! WOW! Talk about following the energy! When you hear her story, you'll understand. Danielle's work dives into what I like to call "root" stops or "absolute" stops. These STOP our natural flow of life. These stops often show up as challenges and self-sabotaging behavioral patterns. Danielle MacKinnon's systems are not designed as a Band-Aid quick fix. Instead, it's about teaching YOU how you can remove STOPS and create real changes in your life. You are ready for this interview if you feel you're stuck in a rut, unable to move forward -- or moving forward is a very slow process. Maybe you prevent success because you doubt yourself. Or you wish you could find relief from that little voice of self-doubt once and for all. Is it time to make real life changes and step into to a place of improved (optimal) health, happiness and opportunities? YES? Are ready for MORE... so much more ... so you can change your world from the inside out, start now with this podcast! "Danielle MacKinnon has been named an expert TV psychic medium, intuitive, animal communicator, and foremost expert on soul contracts. She has appeared on numerous radio shows, TV and taught along side some of the world's most renowned psychics, mediums, healers and TV experts." It's here that you'll learn how to make the shift from within. Most excitingly, the changes you create through this program will ripple out and affect all areas of your life, helping you to create the life you want to lead! And that's exactly what working with your Soul System will do for you. It will help you master and release those “negative belief” energies deep within your Soul that prevent you from believing in yourself, feeling protected by the work, finding success, finding love and more. Are you ready to start the process of removing those roadblocks now? Thousands have already work with Danielle's transformational processes to change their way of thinking, their way of responding, their way of living … by changing their inside world to create the life they want to lead. Today is the day to expand the world of possibilities :) Did you enjoy the podcast? Check out Danielle's book on Amazon! Like this podcast?  Please leave us a 5-Star iTunes Review! Pick up Jeneth's new book, Falling in Stilettos on Amazon Save Save Save Save Save Save Save

Yeppers, it’s me, Marc Hershon. Your host and inflatable arm-flailing tubeman for Epi117 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. This is a Succotash Clips episode with one exception, which I’ll 'splain in a sec. I’m happy to have our associate producer Tyson Saner back helping me to harvest clips of podcasts far and wide. He was a little overwhelmed doing some moving recently so we gave him some well-earned vacation time from listenin’ and snippin’. But he’s back and we’ve got some interesting clips to get to. I’m one week back from the 4th Annual LA Podcast Festival and what a time I had. I was mostly dug in at the SquareSpace Podcast Lab, interviewing a few podcasters and then cutting, prepping and uploading those "minisodes". (You can find them all listed, essentially, under Epi116 at http://SuccotashShow.com and iTunes. I forgot to get them up to SoundCloud, but I’ll do that soon just to have them up there as well.) There was one last interview that I didn’t get a chance to produce and upload. That was with Michael John Simpson, co-host of The Something Something Experience podcast , so I’m going to break protocol — God, the network hates when I do this — and play that interview and a clip from Michael’s podcast as well. In addition to his show, we’ve got clippage from The Chillpak Hollywood Hour, The Mild Adventures of Fred Stoller, Human Conversation, Taco Tuesday, The Talking Podcast, The Hooray Show, The New Hollywood podcast, and the Why Didn’t They Laugh? podcast. We also have a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment, featuring political comedian and social commentator Will Durst, a classic Henderson’s Pants commercial, and an absurd folk song from our musical buddy, Abner Serd. Be sure to listen for that following Bill Heywatt’s closing credits. Clips Chillpak Hollywood HourImmediately following the LA Podfest, I was honored to be the first guest to Skype in on the Chillpak Hollywood Hour, with Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness, since they’ve gone international with Dean now hanging out down under in Australia. A little after 11 o’clock Sunday night, I pulled off the freeway into the parking lot of a KFC in Patterson, California, population 20,868. Dean and Phil wanted me to give them a review of the Ear Buds podcast documentary which had a couple of preliminary screenings at the podfest. In addition, I gave them and their listeners my take on the current State of the Podcast Union. The New HollywoodBrian Flaherty, host of The New Hollywood podcast, was our guest for Succotash Chats, Epi102, back at the end of the January of this year. I just reviewed his episode last week for both Splitsider and Huffington Post Entertainment, which featured his lengthy interview with the multi-talented and very entertaining Bill Hader. Since leaving SNL, Hader has been keeping himself busy – it seems like there is no acting job that guy won’t try – TV shows, commercials, and movies, including last year’s amazing The Skeleton Twins. Our clip features Hader outlining the audition process he had to go through to get on SNL. Human ConversationLast week was actually a review “two-fer” because I reviewed Human Conversation in addition to The New Hollywood. Human Conversation is a podcast that’s 20-something episodes in and I hadn’t heard about it until co-host Wayne Federman waded into the Podcast Lab at the LA Podfest. Wayne and I go way back but we’re not in touch all that often and this was the first I’d heard of his show, which he co-hosts with Erin McGathy, the significant other of Dan Harmon, the mayor of Harmontown. In the course of the show, she and Wayne talk about a variety of topics but the things is that neither is allowed to look up facts, figures, names, or anything else germane to the topics they discuss. Here, they talk about music and getting things done. Although Wayne and Erin don’t look up anything then and there during each episode, they DO look things up before the next episode and they kick every show off with a list of corrections. (I’ll have Wayne on an episode of Succotash Chats soon to talk about his monumental 30-year-project, The Federman Chronicles, which features parts of his standup comedy act dating back 30 years.) The Mild Adventures of Fred StollerI reviewed past guest and friend-of-Succotash Fred Stoller’s new podcast, The Mild Adventures of Fred Stoller, back when it debuted in July. We’d had Fred as a guest way, way back in Epi15, when doing his own podcast wasn’t even a twinkle in his mouth. We also clipped that episode I reviewed, with guest Robert Forester, but our Associate Producer Tyson Saner thought it was time for a rematch. The clip captures part of the opening to the show, which is part of a phone conversation of Fred trying explain the concept of a podcast to his mother. Also in this clip, he’s joined by sometimes-co-host Amber Tozer, and they discuss comedy and dating with guest Darren Carter and Nikki Sullivan. The Hooray ShowThe hosts of The Hooray Show, which we’ve not covered on this show before, are Horatio Sands and Chad Krueger. Horatio is, of course, from SNL. Krueger is a musician, perhaps best known as the lead singer and guitarist for Nickleback. In this clip, from their Season 2, Episode 6, they talk to guests Peter Murrieta and Jaime Moyer about the fire that swept through the Second City offices in Chicago earlier in September. The theater, I believe, was largely untouched, but the offices took quite a hit. The Talking PodcastFrom the UK comes The Talking Podcast, which is the most content-related blatant titling of a show I can remember. It features three brothers, Joseph Snelling, Oliver Snelling and George Trevor White, who, in the words of their homesite’s “Who Are We?”, “arrogantly assume that others would like to listen to them talking.” Tyson found this show and this clip, and I don’t know why the third brother’s last name, White, is not even close to that of his two brohams, which is Snelling. Here they talk about a family outing as boys on the Isle of Man. They also chat about Time as a concept. Heavy. Taco TuesdayOkay, I’ve mentioned on the show before that I really don’t care for pre-recorded promos. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them, but they can be easily played on any other podcast to help cross promote another podcast. Clips are much more illustrative of what a show really has going on. And the guys at the Taco Tuesday podcast — Uncle Dan, Adam Wolf, and Dave In The Cave —know that. We’ve clipped ‘em before. But this week, they sent along a promo – it’s got a head, a tail, some chit chat in-between, and music bed throughout the whole thing. Maddening. But because I love the Taco Tuesday guys (and because they got this promo here using our upload link at http://hightail.com/u/succotashshow), I’m going to let it slide. Why Didn’t They Laugh?Comedian Owen Benjamin, who is also an actor started a podcast where he tries to deconstruct his act. He plays portions of his performances and attempts to figure out what it was that kept an audience from laughing at the material. He’s almost 40 epis into Why Didn’t They Laugh? But our associate producer has clipped the very first episode, which features a recording of Owen’s father recounting a favorite joke. Tyson thinks the senior Benjamin sounds an awful lot like the late Spaulding Gray. The Something Something ExperienceWe slipped this clip of The Something Something Experience onto the end of my interview with Michael John Simpson. It features he and his "co-caster", Kitty Brown, and their visit with comedian Ron Swallow. It seems Swallow has backed off performing fulltime, and their discussion gets into the challenge of making ends meet offstage, working as a freelancer in various industries. Thanks for stuffing your ears full of Succotash Clips (with a little bit o’ chat). If you’d like to do a little something-something to pay us back for all this free chuckle n’ jivin’, we would adore your ratings and reviews up on iTunes, your thumbs-ups and reviews on Stitcher, a heart on SoundCloud, a Like on Facebook, a click on our Donate button or Amazon banner at http://SuccotashShow.com — any or all of those options will make us all very happy around Studio P and some of them will even get you mentioned on an upcoming episode of our show! Until next time, thanks very much for passing the Succotash! — Marc Hershon

Let's talk fiction. Let's talk books. Let's talk what makes a best-selling "Christian fiction" book. "You mean GOD just won't make it happen for Christian authors? You mean I gotta do some research, take some courses, listen to PR Coaches and learn some internet marketing?" YEPPERS! This is a show I've wanted to do for a long time. It's the "skinny" on what it takes to make it as a full-time author - from an author's perspective and a gospel publicist. Meet Kimberla Lawson Roby and Dee Stewart. They will give it to you straight. Praise the LORD! See Dee's blog: http://www.christianfiction.blogspot.com/ and JOIN www.ChocolatePagesNetwork.com too! And visit Kimberla at www.kimroby.com