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Send us a textWendy Williams "You Know What I Mean"Wendy Williams & Guardianship ControversyKey Points:Wendy's Call to Charlamagne Tha God: Wendy Williams called into his radio show, stating she is not cognitively impaired but is being held in a facility.Facility Details: She has been in a New York assisted living facility (5th-floor memory care unit) for 8 months. She can make calls but cannot receive them. No access to a cell phone, computer, or iPad.Guardianship Concerns:GinaLisa Monterroso (Connect Care Advisory Founder) questions why Wendy is under guardianship, stating no professional has assessed her condition.Rosanna Scotto (News Anchor & Friend) has seen Wendy at her worst but believes she is at her best now and should not be in a locked facility.Alex Finne (Wendy's Niece): Thought Wendy was moving into an apartment in NYC. She is now isolated and trying to share her story.Financial Issues & Guardianship Origins:Wendy's son, Kevin Hunter Jr., mismanaged her money, including spending $113,000 on a boat.Wells Fargo froze her accounts after failing to contact her, triggering the guardianship.Legal Battle: No clear explanation for why Wendy remains under guardianship for three years.Judicial & Guardian Actions:The judge authorized Wendy's guardian to profit from her assets.Documents are sealed, and Wendy has never been reassessed.A lawsuit with Lifetime & A&E may be restricting her communication.Cognitive Health Debate:Wendy was reportedly drinking heavily during her documentary.Diagnosed with aphasia and possible Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), but experts suggest alcohol-induced dementia could be reversible.She hasn't seen a doctor in over 18 months.Wendy's Mental & Emotional State:Friends and family claim she sounds like her old self.She wants her freedom back and someone else to manage her money.Wants to visit her 94-year-old father in Miami, which she finally did on February 15th.Recent Interview (Jan 20th) with Harvey Levin:Wendy displayed sharp memory, recalling Donald Trump as the 47th president and past encounters with celebrities.Made comments about Diddy ("prison for life") and JLo ("a good girl until she's not").Talked about relationships, cheating, and wanting to date again in NYC. Court Decision (Sept 2024):The judge ruled her son cannot manage her finances, but a new guardian is yet to be assigned.TakeawaysWendy Williams feels trapped and imprisoned in her current situation.There are concerns about her mental health and possible misdiagnosis.Family dynamics play a significant role in Wendy's life and decisions.The conservatorship has raised questions about her autonomy and rights.Wendy's cognitive state appears to be better than previously reported.The importance of having a sober coach for recovery is emphasized.Wendy's son has been involved in questionable financial decisions.The role of care managers is crucial in ensuring proper healthcare.There is a significant concern about the motivations of those around Wendy.Support the showhttps://www.wewinewhenever.com/

Grandpa Bill's Grunts & Groans @billholt8792 Well She was Just 17 if You Know What I Mean, and The Way She Looked Was WAY Beyond Compare! Thanks John & Paul! Happy BIRTHDAY astrology chart for my Granddaughter!Seventeen years ago, our lives changed forever with your arrival. You brought a whirlwind of joy, laughter, and a love so pure it's indescribable. Watching you grow into the amazing young woman you are today has been the greatest privilege of our lives.Your spirit is as bright as the sun, and your heart is as kind as gold. You've always had a unique ability to find peace in the midst of chaos and to bring joy to everyone around you. Your laughter is infectious, and your smile can light up the darkest room.We're so grateful for the countless memories we've shared together, from your first steps to your first day of school, and everything in between. Your love and support mean the world to us, and we're blessed to have you as our granddaughter.As you embark on this new chapter of your life, know that we'll always be here to support and encourage you. May your future be filled with endless possibilities, happiness, and love.Happy Birthday, Adah! We love you more than words can say.I love you to the core of my heart & soul-Grandpa Bill & Grammie #HappyBirthdayAdah, #17thBirthday, #Granddaughter, #Love ,#Family, #Memories, #Peace, #Joy,

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Mark Arnold and Charles F. Rosenay are the authors of the brand new book Not Just Happy Together: The Turtles from A-Z (AM Radio to Zappa).Discover the songs and the history of one of the most successful pop rock bands ever, The Turtles, who had countless Top 40 hits including “It Ain't Me Babe,” “Let Me Be,” “You Baby,” “She'd Rather Be with Me,” “You Know What I Mean,” “She's My Girl,” “Elenore,” “You Showed Me” and of course, the iconic “Happy Together!” Authors Mark Arnold (Long Title: Looking for the Good Times; Examining The Monkees Songs, One by One and Headquartered: A Timeline of The Monkees Solo Years) and Charles F. Rosenay!!! (The Book of Top 10 Beatles Lists and The Book of Top 10 Horror Lists) have joined forces to cover the entire careers of The Turtles from their early days as The Crossfires, through their hit-filled years, into their break-up that led to most of The Turtles' members joining forces with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, to Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan's years as solo artists under the guise of Flo & Eddie, and even their forays into children's records. I'm so happy Mark and Charles are together with me today to talk all about this excellent new book!Purchase a copy of Not Just Happy Together: The Turtles from A-Z (AM Radio to Zappa) Episode PlaylistListen To Flo & Eddie's "We Are All Gumby"Visit The Not Just Happy Together Official Website ---------- BookedOnRock.com The Booked On Rock YouTube Channel Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich:FACEBOOKINSTAGRAMTIKTOKX Find Your Nearest Independent Bookstore Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by Crowander / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by TrackTribe

On this episode, We close out 2023 with a list!! We talk movies and lots of them. We break down the Top 10 movies of the year according to Joe!! We also look ahead to the New Year!! Hosted by Joe aka Nero Von Doom!! You Know What I Mean??!! This is We Family Son!!

Are ye mad fer it?! In episode 303 Sara and Laura crack open a lager and spend three hours indulging in their most problematic (or NOT) obsession yet– The Gallagher Brothers of Oasis! RPF, or ‘real person fiction' is fanfiction based on the lives of real people. We figure, if you're gonna get into RPF, you ‘might as well do the white line' and in true rock'n'roll lifestyle Slide Away into the nitty gritty of one of the most complicated, fascinating, beautiful, ugly, loving, brutal, intense relationships maybe ever. D' You Know What I Mean?  Gcest fans, this is for you. Turn your light on, take the shame out of your bread, sit back and enjoy!    PS. Even in three hours we didn't get to everything! If you're interested in more gcest fic, we've got our recs listed below, and do check out Snickfic's Gcest Primer, and the Livejournal communities “MFOK” community and quote archive.  PPS. Spotify Playlist of our Top Oasis and Gallagher Bros. solo tracks!   Timecaps! 0m - Episode Intro 4m - Cold open. Laura is forced to name all the Oasis and Gallagher solo studio albums in order 10m - HOW WE GOT HERE (RPF?! Incest?! On arrive à la problématique) 25m - IRL Timeline Walkthrough, “Who are the Gallagher Brothers?” 1h33m - The fanfiction! RPF, gcest, and our recs! 2h03 - The music and our Toppermost of the Poppermost of Oasis, Liam Gallagher, and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.   Episode References Documentary on Oasis, “Supersonic” (2016) [Prime] [Official Trailer] Documentary on Liam, “As You Were” (2019) [Prime] [Official Trailer] Oasis on MTV Most Wanted (18th August 1994) - “Whatever” and “Live Forever” (Liam looking ethereally beautiful, music starts 1m40s) Tumblr post ft. pics of the amazing and infamous 'Loch Lomond Kiss'  “Gallaghercest, a Primer” by Snickfic (LJ) “Mad for Our Kid” quote archive https://mfokquotearchiv.livejournal.com/  “Mad for Our Kid” LJ https://mfokquotearchiv.livejournal.com/  Oasis and Gallagher Brother Timeline (public Google Doc we made) BE on Spotify (our fave Beady Eye album) 2015 Youtube video of Liam in an Irish pub playing early versions of ‘Bold' and ‘When I'm In Need' Liam Gallagher - “Once” Music Video ft. Eric Cantona, and Butler!Liam Liam Gallagher - "One of Us" Music Video or, “I miss my brother, here is my heart on my sleeve.” Try not to cry!  Beady Eye - “Ballroom Figured” acoustic studio. Liam's voice is raw but beautiful here. Lovely. Liam Gallagher - "Greedy Soul" Live at Air Studios BIBLICAL Liam Gallagher - "All You're Dreaming Of" Live on Jonathan Ross CELESTIAL Liam Gallagher - "Gone" MTV Unplugged MAJESTICAL Noel Gallagher's HFB - “Holy Mountain” music video (aka Hot Daddy NG in his tiny trousers)    Noel Gallagher's HFB - "Dead in the Water" Live at The Late Late Show RTÉ One    Contact and Credits: Music: Kyle Laurin "Oasis Supersonic Theme" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic) Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com  Instagram: @talkinfanfic Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com    Fic Recs (3-5) Sara's Recs time's slipping away (and what will it hold for me?) by mansgotalimit (young!Liam appears in older!Noel's world. WIP. ) “A Lot Like Gravity”, by RedheadAmongWolves (Superhero AU, SO!MUCH!FUN!) "Let Me Be the One" by Savageandwise (angsty with happy ending, psychological excavation, amazing!!) "don't you know you're life itself?" by liamnoel (early days, romantic, surreal, stylistic) "Candy Floss Heart" by Jeevey  (lovely present day, Sonny meets Liam at the zoo) Laura's Recs “Canter”, by cancellable (early days, short drabble, pretty, that one incredible line!) “Trying to Find a World That's Been and Gone” by storyshark2005, (Reconciliation, Sara's Coma trope fic) “Razorblade” by Jeevey (sexy, early days pre-band, rawr) “you and I are gonna live forever” by StripySock, (sexy, first kiss, beautifully and sharply written, early days band)  Filmstar (orphaned, A/N reads: "This was written by lonelyisourlife @ livejournal in 2014" FILMSTAR!!!! WE FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT FILMSTAR!! READ THIS FIC!! In our opinion, one of the best fics in the fandom. Music Recs Spotify Playlist of our Top Oasis and Gallagher Bros. solo tracks! Sara's Faves Oasis: Slide Away / Don't Look Back in Anger / Supersonic  LG Solo: “Once” / “Diamond in the Dark” / “When I'm in Need” NG Solo: “If I Had a Gun” / “Dying of the Light” / “Holy Mountain” Laura's Faves Oasis: Talk Tonight / Cast No Shadow / Don't Go Away / Stop Crying Your Heart Out / Songbird  LG Solo: Ballroom Figured (BE) / All You're Dreaming of / Gone NG Solo: Dead in the Water / Black Star Dancing / Alone on the Rope

Episode one hundred and fifty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs is the last of our four-part mini-series on LA sunshine pop and folk-rock in summer 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifteen-minute bonus episode available, on "Baby, Now That I've Found You" by the Foundations. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources There is no Mixcloud this week, because there were too many Turtles songs in the episode. There's relatively little information available about the Turtles compared to other bands of their era, and so apart from the sources on the general LA scene referenced in all these podcasts, the information here comes from a small number of sources. This DVD is a decent short documentary on the band's career. Howard Kaylan's autobiography, Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, Etc.,  is a fun read, if inevitably biased towards his own viewpoint. Jim Pons' Hard Core Love: Sex, Football, and Rock and Roll in the Kingdom of God is much less fun, being as it is largely organised around how his life led up to his latter-day religious beliefs, but is the only other book I'm aware of with a substantial amount of coverage of the Turtles. There are many compilations of the Turtles' material available, of which All The Singles is by far and away the best. The box set of all their albums with bonus tracks is now out of print on CD, but can still be bought as MP3s. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript We've spent a lot of time recently in the LA of summer 1967, at the point where the sunshine pop sound that was created when the surf harmonies of the Beach Boys collided with folk rock was at its apex, right before fashions changed and tight sunny pop songs with harmonies from LA became yesterday's news, and extended blues-rock improvisations from San Francisco became the latest in thing. This episode is the last part of this four-episode sequence, and is going to be shorter than those others. In many ways this one is a bridge between this sequence and next episode, where we travel back to London, because we're saying goodbye for a while to the LA scene, and when we do return to LA it will be, for the most part, to look at music that's a lot less sunshine and a lot more shadow. So this is a brief fade-out while we sing ba-ba-ba, a three-minute pop-song of an episode, a last bit of sunshine pop before we return to longer, more complicated, stories  in two weeks' time, at which point the sun will firmly set. Like many musicians associated with LA, Howard Kaylan was born elsewhere and migrated there as a child, and he seems to have regarded his move from upstate New York to LA as essentially a move to Disneyland itself. That impression can only have been made stronger by the fact that soon after his family moved there he got his first childhood girlfriend -- who happened to be a Mouseketeer on the TV. And TV was how young Howard filtered most of his perceptions -- particularly TV comedy. By the age of fourteen he was the president of the Soupy Sales Fan Club, and he was also obsessed with the works of Ernie Kovacs, Sid Caesar, and the great satirist and parodist Stan Freberg: [Excerpt: Stan Freberg, "St. George and the Dragonet"] Second only to his love of comedy, though, was his love of music, and it was on the trip from New York to LA that he saw a show that would eventually change his life. Along the way, his family had gone to Las Vegas, and while there they had seen Louis Prima and Keeley Smith do their nightclub act. Prima is someone I would have liked to do a full podcast episode on when I was covering the fifties, and who I did do a Patreon bonus episode on. He's now probably best known for doing the voice of King Louis in the Jungle Book: [Excerpt: Louis Prima, "I Wanna Be Like You (the Monkey Song)"] But he was also a jump blues musician who made some very good records in a similar style to Louis Jordan, like "Jump, Jive, an' Wail" [Excerpt: Louis Prima, "Jump, Jive, an' Wail"] But like Jordan, Prima dealt at least as much in comedy as in music -- usually comedy involving stereotypes about his Italian-American ethnic origins. At the time young Howard Kaylan saw him, he was working a double act with his then-wife Keeley Smith. The act would consist of Smith trying to sing a song straight, while Prima would clown around, interject, and act like a fool, as Smith grew more and more exasperated, and would eventually start contemptuously mocking Prima. [Excerpt: Louis Prima and Keeley Smith, "Embraceable You/I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"] This is of course a fairly standard double-act format, as anyone who has suffered through an episode of The Little and Large Show will be all too painfully aware, but Prima and Smith did it better than most, and to young Howard Kaylan, this was the greatest entertainment imaginable. But while comedy was the closest thing to Kaylan's heart, music was a close second. He was a regular listener to Art Laboe's radio show, and in a brief period as a teenage shoplifter he obtained records like Ray Charles' album Genius + Soul = Jazz: [Excerpt: Ray Charles, "One Mint Julep"] and the single "Tossin' and Turnin'" by Bobby Lewis: [Excerpt: Bobby Lewis, "Tossin' and Turnin'"] "Tossin' and Turnin'" made a deep impression on Kaylan, because of the saxophone solo, which was actually a saxophone duet. On the record, baritone sax player Frank Henry played a solo, and it was doubled by the great tenor sax player King Curtis, who was just playing a mouthpiece rather than a full instrument, making a high-pitched squeaking sound: [Excerpt: Bobby Lewis, "Tossin' and Turnin'"] Curtis was of course also responsible for another great saxophone part a couple of years earlier, on a record that Kaylan loved because it combined comedy and rock and roll, "Yakety Yak": [Excerpt: The Coasters, "Yakety Yak"] Those two saxophone parts inspired Kaylan to become a rock and roller. He was already learning the clarinet and playing part time in an amateur Dixieland band, and it was easy enough to switch to saxophone, which has the same fingering. Within a matter of weeks of starting to play sax, he was invited to join a band called the Nightriders, who consisted of Chuck Portz on bass, Al Nichol on guitar, and Glen Wilson on drums. The Nightriders became locally popular, and would perform sets largely made up of Johnny and the Hurricanes and Ventures material. While he was becoming a budding King Curtis, Kaylan was still a schoolkid, and one of the classes he found most enjoyable was choir class. There was another kid in choir who Kaylan got on with, and one day that kid, Mark Volman came up to him, and had a conversation that Kaylan would recollect decades later in his autobiography: “So I hear you're in a rock 'n' roll band.” “Yep.” “Um, do you think I could join it?” “Well, what do you do?” “Nothing.” “Nothing?” “Nope.” “Sounds good to me. I'll ask Al.” Volman initially became the group's roadie and occasional tambourine player, and would also get on stage to sing a bit during their very occasional vocal numbers, but was mostly "in the band" in name only at first -- he didn't get a share of the group's money, but he was allowed to say he was in the group because that meant that his friends would come to the Nightriders' shows, and he was popular among the surfing crowd. Eventually, Volman's father started to complain that his son wasn't getting any money from being in the band, while the rest of the group were, and they explained to him that Volman was just carrying the instruments while they were all playing them. Volman's father said "if Mark plays an instrument, will you give him equal shares?" and they said that that was fair, so Volman got an alto sax to play along with Kaylan's tenor. Volman had also been taking clarinet lessons, and the two soon became a tight horn section for the group, which went through a few lineup changes and soon settled on a lineup of Volman and Kaylan on saxes, Nichol on lead guitar, Jim Tucker on rhythm guitar, Portz on bass, and Don Murray on drums. That new lineup became known as the Crossfires, presumably after the Johnny and the Hurricanes song of the same name: [Excerpt: Johnny and the Hurricanes, "Crossfire"] Volman and Kaylan worked out choreographed dance steps to do while playing their saxes, and the group even developed a group of obsessive fans who called themselves the Chunky Club, named after one of the group's originals: [Excerpt: The Crossfires, "Chunky"] At this point the group were pretty much only playing instrumentals, though they would do occasional vocals on R&B songs like "Money" or their version of Don and Dewey's "Justine", songs which required more enthusiasm than vocal ability. But their first single, released on a tiny label, was another surf instrumental, a song called "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde": [Excerpt: The Crossfires, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde"] The group became popular enough locally that they became the house band at the Revelaire Club in Redondo Beach. There as well as playing their own sets, they would also be the backing band for any touring acts that came through without their own band, quickly gaining the kind of performing ability that comes from having to learn a new artist's entire repertoire in a few days and be able to perform it with them live with little or no rehearsal. They backed artists like the Coasters, the Drifters, Bobby Vee, the Rivingtons, and dozens of other major acts, and as part of that Volman and Kaylan would, on songs that required backing vocals, sing harmonies rather than playing saxophone. And that harmony-singing ability became important when the British Invasion happened, and suddenly people didn't want to hear surf instrumentals, but vocals along the lines of the new British groups. The Crossfires' next attempt at a single was another original, this one an attempt at sounding like one of their favourite new British groups, the Kinks: [Excerpt: The Crossfires, "One Potato, Two Potato"] This change to vocals necessitated a change in the group dynamic. Volman and Kaylan ditched the saxophones, and discovered that between them they made one great frontman. The two have never been excessively close on a personal level, but both have always known that the other has qualities they needed. Frank Zappa would later rather dismissively say "I regard Howard as a fine singer, and Mark as a great tambourine player and fat person", and it's definitely true that Kaylan is one of the truly great vocalists to come out of the LA scene in this period, while Volman is merely a good harmony singer, not anything particularly special -- though he *is* a good harmony singer -- but it undersells Volman's contribution. There's a reason the two men performed together for nearly sixty years. Kaylan is a great singer, but also by nature rather reserved, and he always looked uncomfortable on stage, as well as, frankly, not exactly looking like a rock star (Kaylan describes himself not inaccurately as looking like a potato several times in his autobiography). Volman, on the other hand, is a merely good singer, but he has a naturally outgoing personality, and while he's also not the most conventionally good-looking of people he has a *memorable* appearance in a way that Kaylan doesn't. Volman could do all the normal frontman stuff, the stuff that makes a show an actual show -- the jokes, the dancing, the between-song patter, the getting the crowd going, while Kaylan could concentrate on the singing. They started doing a variation on the routine that had so enthralled Howard Kaylan when he'd seen Louis Prima and Keeley Smith do it as a child. Kaylan would stand more or less stock still, looking rather awkward, but singing like an angel, while Volman would dance around, clown, act the fool, and generally do everything he could to disrupt the performance -- short of actually disrupting it in reality. It worked, and Volman became one of that small but illustrious group of people -- the band member who makes the least contribution to the sound of the music but the biggest contribution to the feel of the band itself, and without whom they wouldn't be the same. After "One Potato, Two Potato" was a flop, the Crossfires were signed to their third label. This label, White Whale, was just starting out, and the Crossfires were to become their only real hit act. Or rather, the Turtles were. The owners of White Whale knew that they didn't have much promotional budget and that their label was not a known quantity -- it was a tiny label with no track record. But they thought of a way they could turn that to their advantage. Everyone knew that the Beatles, before Capitol had picked up their contracts, had had their records released on a bunch of obscure labels like Swan and Tollie. People *might* look for records on tiny independent labels if they thought it might be another British act who were unknown in the US but could be as good as the Beatles. So they chose a name for the group that they thought sounded as English as possible -- an animal name that started with "the", and ended in "les", just like the Beatles. The group, all teenagers at the time, were desperate enough that they agreed to change their name, and from that point on they became the Turtles. In order to try and jump on as many bandwagons as possible, the label wanted to position them as a folk-rock band, so their first single under the Turtles name was a cover of a Bob Dylan song, from Another Side of Bob Dylan: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "It Ain't Me Babe"] That song's hit potential had already been seen by Johnny Cash, who'd had a country hit with it a few months before. But the Turtles took the song in a different direction, inspired by Kaylan's *other* great influence, along with Prima and Smith. Kaylan was a big fan of the Zombies, one of the more interesting of the British Invasion groups, and particularly of their singer Colin Blunstone. Kaylan imitated Blunstone on the group's hit single, "She's Not There", on which Blunstone sang in a breathy, hushed, voice on the verses: [Excerpt: The Zombies, "She's Not There"] before the song went into a more stomping chorus on which Blunstone sang in a fuller voice: [Excerpt: The Zombies, "She's Not There"] Kaylan did this on the Turtles' version of "It Ain't Me Babe", starting off with a quiet verse: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "It Ain't Me Babe"] Before, like the Zombies, going into a foursquare, more uptempo, louder chorus: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "It Ain't Me Babe"] The single became a national top ten hit, and even sort of got the approval of Bob Dylan. On the group's first national tour, Dylan was at one club show, which they ended with "It Ain't Me Babe", and after the show the group were introduced to the great songwriter, who was somewhat the worse for wear. Dylan said “Hey, that was a great song you just played, man. That should be your single", and then passed out into his food. With the group's first single becoming a top ten hit, Volman and Kaylan got themselves a house in Laurel Canyon, which was not yet the rock star Mecca it was soon to become, but which was starting to get a few interesting residents. They would soon count Henry Diltz of the Modern Folk Quartet, Danny Hutton, and Frank Zappa among their neighbours. Soon Richie Furay would move in with them, and the house would be used by the future members of the Buffalo Springfield as their rehearsal space. The Turtles were rapidly becoming part of the in crowd. But they needed a follow-up single, and so Bones Howe, who was producing their records, brought in P.F. Sloan to play them a few of his new songs. They liked "Eve of Destruction" enough to earmark it as a possible album track, but they didn't think they would do it justice, and so it was passed on to Barry McGuire. But Sloan did have something for them -- a pseudo-protest song called "Let Me Be" that was very clearly patterned after their version of "It Ain't Me Babe", and which was just rebellious enough to make them seem a little bit daring, but which was far more teenage angst than political manifesto: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Let Me Be"] That did relatively well, making the top thirty -- well enough for the group to rush out an album which was padded out with some sloppy cover versions of other Dylan songs, a version of "Eve of Destruction", and a few originals written by Kaylan. But the group weren't happy with the idea of being protest singers. They were a bunch of young men who were more motivated by having a good time than by politics, and they didn't think that it made sense for them to be posing as angry politicised rebels. Not only that, but there was a significant drop-off between "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Let Me Be". They needed to do better. They got the clue for their new direction while they were in New York. There they saw their friends in the Mothers of Invention playing their legendary residency at the Garrick Theatre, but they also saw a new band, the Lovin' Spoonful, who were playing music that was clearly related to the music the Turtles were doing -- full of harmonies and melody, and inspired by folk music -- but with no sense of rebelliousness at all. They called it "Good Time Music": [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Good Time Music"] As soon as they got back to LA, they told Bones Howe and the executives at White Whale that they weren't going to be a folk-rock group any more, they were going to be "good time music", just like the Lovin' Spoonful. They were expecting some resistance, but they were told that that was fine, and that PF Sloan had some good time music songs too. "You Baby" made the top twenty: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "You Baby"] The Turtles were important enough in the hierarchy of LA stars that Kaylan and Tucker were even invited by David Crosby to meet the Beatles at Derek Taylor's house when they were in LA on their last tour -- this may be the same day that the Beatles met Brian and Carl Wilson, as I talked about in the episode on "All You Need is Love", though Howard Kaylan describes this as being a party and that sounded like more of an intimate gathering. If it was that day, there was nearly a third Beach Boy there. The Turtles knew David Marks, the Beach Boys' former rhythm guitarist, because they'd played a lot in Inglewood where he'd grown up, and Marks asked if he could tag along with Kaylan and Tucker to meet the Beatles. They agreed, and drove up to the house, and actually saw George Harrison through the window, but that was as close as they got to the Beatles that day. There was a heavy police presence around the house because it was known that the Beatles were there, and one of the police officers asked them to drive back and park somewhere else and walk up, because there had been complaints from neighbours about the number of cars around. They were about to do just that, when Marks started yelling obscenities and making pig noises at the police, so they were all arrested, and the police claimed to find a single cannabis seed in the car. Charges were dropped, but now Kaylan was on the police's radar, and so he moved out of the Laurel Canyon home to avoid bringing police attention to Buffalo Springfield, so that Neil Young and Bruce Palmer wouldn't get deported. But generally the group were doing well. But there was a problem. And that problem was their record label. They rushed out another album to cash in on the success of "You Baby", one that was done so quickly that it had "Let Me Be" on it again, just as the previous album had, and which included a version of the old standard "All My Trials", with the songwriting credited to the two owners of White Whale records. And they pumped out a lot of singles. A LOT of singles, ranging from a song written for them by new songwriter Warren Zevon, to cover versions of Frank Sinatra's "It Was a Very Good Year" and the old standard "We'll Meet Again". Of the five singles after "You Baby", the one that charted highest was a song actually written by a couple of the band members. But for some reason a song with verses in 5/4 time and choruses in 6/4 with lyrics like "killing the living and living to kill, the grim reaper of love thrives on pain" didn't appeal to the group's good-time music pop audience and only reached number eighty-one: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Grim Reaper of Love"] The group started falling apart. Don Murray became convinced that  the rest of the band were conspiring against him and wanted him out, so he walked out of the group in the middle of a rehearsal for a TV show. They got Joel Larson of the Grass Roots -- the group who had a number of hits with Sloan and Barri songs -- to sub for a few gigs before getting in a permanent replacement, Johnny Barbata, who came to them on the recommendation of Gene Clark, and who was one of the best drummers on the scene -- someone who was not only a great drummer but a great showman, who would twirl his drumsticks between his fingers with every beat, and who would regularly engage in drum battles with Buddy Rich. By the time they hit their fifth flop single in a row, they lost their bass player as well -- Chuck Portz decided he was going to quit music and become a fisherman instead. They replaced him with Chip Douglas of the Modern Folk Quartet. Then they very nearly lost their singers. Volman and Kaylan both got their draft notices at the same time, and it seemed likely they would end up having to go and fight in the Vietnam war. Kaylan was distraught, but his mother told him "Speak to your cousin Herb". Cousin Herb was Herb Cohen, the manager of the Mothers of Invention and numerous other LA acts, including the Modern Folk Quartet, and Kaylan only vaguely knew him at this time, but he agreed to meet up with them, and told them “Stop worrying! I got Zappa out, I got Tim Buckley out, and I'll get you out.” Cohen told Volman and Kaylan to not wash for a week before their induction, to take every drug of every different kind they could find right before going in, to deliberately disobey every order, to fail the logic tests, and to sexually proposition the male officers dealing with the induction. They followed his orders to the letter, and got marked as 4-F, unfit for service. They still needed a hit though, and eventually they found something by going back to their good-time music idea. It was a song from the Koppelman-Rubin publishing company -- the same company that did the Lovin Spoonful's management and production. The song in question was by Alan Gordon and Gary Bonner, two former members of a group called the Magicians, who had had a minor success with a single called "An Invitation to Cry": [Excerpt: The Magicians, "An Invitation to Cry"] The Magicians had split up, and Bonner and Gordon were trying to make a go of things as professional songwriters, but had had little success to this point. The song on the demo had been passed over by everyone, and the demo was not at all impressive, just a scratchy acetate with Bonner singing off-key and playing acoustic rhythm guitar and Gordon slapping his knees to provide rhythm, but the group heard something in it. They played the song live for months, refining the arrangement, before taking it into the studio. There are arguments to this day as to who deserves the credit for the sound on "Happy Together" -- Chip Douglas apparently did the bulk of the arrangement work while they were on tour, but the group's new producer, Joe Wissert, a former staff engineer for Cameo-Parkway, also claimed credit for much of it. Either way, "Happy Together" is a small masterpiece of dynamics. The song is structured much like the songs that had made the Turtles' name, with the old Zombies idea of the soft verse and much louder chorus: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Happy Together"] But the track is really made by the tiny details of the arrangement, the way instruments and vocal parts come in and out as the track builds up, dies down, and builds again. If you listen to the isolated tracks, there are fantastic touches like the juxtaposition of the bassoon and oboe (which I think is played on a mellotron): [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Happy Together", isolated tracks] And a similar level of care and attention was put into the vocal arrangement by Douglas, with some parts just Kaylan singing solo, other parts having Volman double him, and of course the famous "bah bah bah" massed vocals: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Happy Together", isolated vocals] At the end of the track, thinking he was probably going to do another take, Kaylan decided to fool around and sing "How is the weather?", which Bonner and Gordon had jokingly done on the demo. But the group loved it, and insisted that was the take they were going to use: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Happy Together"] "Happy Together" knocked "Penny Lane" by the Beatles off the number one spot in the US, but by that point the group had already had another lineup change. The Monkees had decided they wanted to make records without the hit factory that had been overseeing them, and had asked Chip Douglas if he wanted to produce their first recordings as a self-contained band. Given that the Monkees were the biggest thing in the American music industry at the time, Douglas had agreed, and so the group needed their third bass player in a year. The one they went for was Jim Pons. Pons had seen the Beatles play at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964, and decided he wanted to become a pop star. The next day he'd been in a car crash, which had paid out enough insurance money that he was able to buy two guitars, a bass, drums, and amps, and use them to start his own band. That band was originally called The Rockwells, but quickly changed their name to the Leaves, and became a regular fixture at Ciro's on Sunset Strip, first as customers, then after beating Love in the auditions, as the new resident band when the Byrds left. For a while the Leaves had occasionally had guest vocals from a singer called Richard Marin, but Pons eventually decided to get rid of him, because, as he put it "I wanted us to look like The Beatles. There were no Mexicans in The Beatles". He is at pains in his autobiography to assure us that he's not a bigot, and that Marin understood. I'm sure he did. Marin went on to be better known as Cheech Marin of Cheech and Chong. The Leaves were signed by Pat Boone to his production company, and through that company they got signed to Mira Records. Their first single, produced by Nik Venet, had been a version of "Love Minus Zero (No Limit)", a song by Bob Dylan: [Excerpt: The Leaves, "Love Minus Zero (No Limit)"] That had become a local hit, though not a national one, and the Leaves had become one of the biggest bands on the Sunset Strip scene, hanging out with all the other bands. They had become friendly with the Doors before the Doors got a record deal, and Pat Boone had even asked for an introduction, as he was thinking of signing them, but unfortunately when he met Jim Morrison, Morrison had drunk a lot of vodka, and given that Morrison was an obnoxious drunk Boone had second thoughts, and so the world missed out on the chance of a collaboration between the Doors and Pat Boone. Their second single was "Hey Joe" -- as was their third and fourth, as we discussed in that episode: [Excerpt: The Leaves, "Hey Joe"] Their third version of "Hey Joe" had become a top forty hit, but they didn't have a follow-up, and their second album, All The Good That's Happening, while it's a good album, sold poorly. Various band members quit or fell out, and when Johnny Barbata knocked on Jim Pons' door it was an easy decision to quit and join a band that had a current number one hit. When Pons joined, the group had already recorded the Happy Together album. That album included the follow-up to "Happy Together", another Bonner and Gordon song, "She'd Rather Be With Me": [Excerpt: The Turtles, "She'd Rather Be With Me"] None of the group were tremendously impressed with that song, but it did very well, becoming the group's second-biggest hit in the US, reaching number three, and actually becoming a bigger hit than "Happy Together" in parts of Europe. Before "Happy Together" the group hadn't really made much impact outside the US. In the UK, their early singles had been released by Pye, the smallish label that had the Kinks and Donovan, but which didn't have much promotional budget, and they'd sunk without trace. For "You Baby" they'd switched to Immediate, the indie label that Andrew Oldham had set up, and it had done a little better but still not charted. But from "Happy Together" they were on Decca, a much bigger label, and "Happy Together" had made number twelve in the charts in the UK, and "She'd Rather Be With Me" reached number four. So the new lineup of the group went on a UK tour. As soon as they got to the hotel, they found they had a message from Graham Nash of the Hollies, saying he would like to meet up with them. They all went round to Nash's house, and found Donovan was also there, and Nash played them a tape he'd just been given of Sgt Pepper, which wouldn't come out for a few more days. At this point they were living every dream a bunch of Anglophile American musicians could possibly have. Jim Tucker mentioned that he would love to meet the Beatles, and Nash suggested they do just that. On their way out the door, Donovan said to them, "beware of Lennon". It was when they got to the Speakeasy club that the first faux-pas of the evening happened. Nash introduced them to Justin Hayward and John Lodge of the Moody Blues, and Volman said how much he loved their record "Go Now": [Excerpt: The Moody Blues, "Go Now"] The problem was that Hayward and Lodge had joined the group after that record had come out, to replace its lead singer Denny Laine. Oh well, they were still going to meet the Beatles, right? They got to the table where John, Paul, and Ringo were sat, at a tense moment -- Paul was having a row with Jane Asher, who stormed out just as the Turtles were getting there. But at first, everything seemed to go well. The Beatles all expressed their admiration for "Happy Together" and sang the "ba ba ba" parts at them, and Paul and Kaylan bonded over their shared love for "Justine" by Don and Dewey, a song which the Crossfires had performed in their club sets, and started singing it together: [Excerpt: Don and Dewey, "Justine"] But John Lennon was often a mean drunk, and he noticed that Jim Tucker seemed to be the weak link in the group, and soon started bullying him, mocking his clothes, his name, and everything he said. This devastated Tucker, who had idolised Lennon up to that point, and blurted out "I'm sorry I ever met you", to which Lennon just responded "You never did, son, you never did". The group walked out, hurt and confused -- and according to Kaylan in his autobiography, Tucker was so demoralised by Lennon's abuse that he quit music forever shortly afterwards, though Tucker says that this wasn't the reason he quit. From their return to LA on, the Turtles would be down to just a five-piece band. After leaving the club, the group went off in different directions, but then Kaylan (and this is according to Kaylan's autobiography, there are no other sources for this) was approached by Brian Jones, asking for his autograph because he loved the Turtles so much. Jones introduced Kaylan to the friend he was with, Jimi Hendrix, and they went out for dinner, but Jones soon disappeared with a girl he'd met. and left Kaylan and Hendrix alone. They were drinking a lot -- more than Kaylan was used to -- and he was tired, and the omelette that Hendrix had ordered for Kaylan was creamier than he was expecting... and Kaylan capped what had been a night full of unimaginable highs and lows by vomiting all over Jimi Hendrix's expensive red velvet suit. Rather amazingly after all this, the Moody Blues, the Beatles, and Hendrix, all showed up to the Turtles' London gig and apparently enjoyed it. After "She'd Rather Be With Me", the next single to be released wasn't really a proper single, it was a theme song they'd been asked to record for a dire sex comedy titled "Guide for the Married Man", and is mostly notable for being composed by John Williams, the man who would later go on to compose the music for Star Wars. That didn't chart, but the group followed it with two more top twenty hits written by Bonner and Gordon, "You Know What I Mean" and "She's My Girl". But then the group decided that Bonner and Gordon weren't giving them their best material, and started turning down their submissions, like a song called "Celebrity Ball" which they thought had no commercial potential, at least until the song was picked up by their friends Three Dog Night, retitled "Celebrate", and made the top twenty: [Excerpt: Three Dog Night, "Celebrate"] Instead, the group decided to start recording more of their own material. They were worried that in the fast-changing rock world bands that did other songwriters' material were losing credibility. But "Sound Asleep", their first effort in this new plan, only made number forty-seven on the charts. Clearly they needed a different plan. They called in their old bass player Chip Douglas, who was now an experienced hitmaker as a producer. He called in *his* friend Harry Nilsson, who wrote "The Story of Rock & Roll" for the group, but that didn't do much better, only making number forty-eight. But the group persevered, starting work on a new album produced by Douglas, The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands, the conceit of which was that every track would be presented as being by a different band. So there were tracks by  Chief Kamanawanalea and his Royal Macadamia Nuts,  Fats Mallard and the Bluegrass Fireball, The Atomic Enchilada, and so on, all done in the styles suggested by those band names. There was even a track by "The Cross Fires": [Excerpt: The Cross Fires, "Surfer Dan"] It was the first time the group had conceived of an album as a piece, and nine of the twelve tracks were originals by the band -- there was a track written by their friend Bill Martin, and the opening track, by "The US Teens Featuring Raoul", was co-written by Chip Douglas and Harry Nilsson. But for the most part the songs were written by the band members themselves, and jointly credited to all of them. This was the democratic decision, but one that Howard Kaylan would later regret, because of the song for which the band name was just "Howie, Mark, Johnny, Jim & Al". Where all the other songs were parodies of other types of music, that one was, as the name suggests, a parody of the Turtles themselves. It was written by Kaylan in disgust at the record label, who kept pestering the group to "give us another 'Happy Together'". Kaylan got more and more angry at this badgering, and eventually thought "OK, you want another 'Happy Together'? I'll give you another 'Happy Together'" and in a few minutes wrote a song that was intended as an utterly vicious parody of that kind of song, with lyrics that nobody could possibly take seriously, and with music that was just mocking the whole structure of "Happy Together" specifically. He played it to the rest of the group, expecting them to fall about laughing, but instead they all insisted it was the group's next single. "Elenore" went to number six on the charts, becoming their biggest hit since "She'd Rather Be With Me": [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Elenore"] And because everything was credited to the group, Kaylan's songwriting royalties were split five ways. For the follow-up, they chose the one actual cover version on the album. "You Showed Me" is a song that Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark had written together in the very early days of the Byrds, and they'd recorded it as a jangly folk-rock tune in 1964: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "You Showed Me"] They'd never released that track, but Gene Clark had performed it solo after leaving the Byrds, and Douglas had been in Clark's band at the time, and liked the song. He played it for the Turtles, but when he played it for them the only instrument he had to hand was a pump organ with one of its bellows broken. Because of this, he had to play it slowly, and while he kept insisting that the song needed to be faster, the group were equally insistent that what he was playing them was the big ballad hit they wanted, and they recorded it at that tempo. "You Showed Me" became the Turtles' final top ten hit: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "You Showed Me"] But once again there were problems in the group. Johnny Barbata was the greatest drummer any of them had ever played with, but he didn't fit as a personality -- he didn't like hanging round with the rest of them when not on stage, and while there were no hard feelings, it was clear he could get a gig with pretty much anyone and didn't need to play with a group he wasn't entirely happy in. By mutual agreement, he left to go and play with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and was replaced by John Seiter from Spanky and Our Gang -- a good drummer, but not the best of the best like Barbata had been. On top of this, there were a whole host of legal problems to deal with. The Turtles were the only big act on White Whale records, though White Whale did put out some other records. For example, they'd released the single "Desdemona" by John's Children in the US: [Excerpt: John's Children, "Desdemona"] The group, being the Anglophiles they were, had loved that record, and were also among the very small number of Americans to like the music made by John's Children's guitarist's new folk duo, Tyrannosaurus Rex: [Excerpt: Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Debora"] When Tyrannosaurus Rex supported the Turtles, indeed, Volman and Kaylan became very close to Marc Bolan, and told him that the next time they were in England they'd have to get together, maybe even record together. That would happen not that many years later, with results we'll be getting to in... episode 201, by my current calculations. But John's Children hadn't had a hit, and indeed nobody on White Whale other than the Turtles had. So White Whale desperately wanted to stop the Turtles having any independence, and to make sure they continued to be their hit factory. They worked with the group's roadie, Dave Krambeck, to undermine the group's faith in their manager, Bill Utley, who supported the group in their desire for independence. Soon, Krambeck and White Whale had ousted Utley, and Krambeck had paid Utley fifty thousand dollars for their management contract, with the promise of another two hundred thousand later. That fifty thousand dollars had been taken by Krambeck as an advance against the Turtles' royalties, so they were really buying themselves out. Except that Krambeck then sold the management contract on to a New York management firm, without telling the group. He then embezzled as much of the group's ready cash as he could and ran off to Mexico, without paying Utley his two hundred thousand dollars. The Turtles were out of money, and they were being sued by Utley because he hadn't had the money he should have had, and by the big New York firm, because  since the Turtles hadn't known they were now legally their managers they were in breach of contract. They needed money quickly, and so they signed with another big management company, this one co-owned by Bill Cosby, in the belief that Cosby's star power might be able to get them some better bookings. It did -- one of the group's first gigs after signing with the new company was at the White House. It turned out they were Tricia Nixon's favourite group, and so they and the Temptations were booked at her request for a White House party. The group at first refused to play for a President they rightly thought of as a monster, but their managers insisted. That destroyed their reputation among the cool antiestablishment youth, of course, but it did start getting them well-paid corporate gigs. Right up until the point where Kaylan became sick at his own hypocrisy at playing these events, drank too much of the complimentary champagne at an event for the president of US Steel, went into a drunken rant about how sick the audience made him, and then about how his bandmates were a bunch of sellouts, threw his mic into a swimming pool, and quit while still on stage. He was out of the band for two months, during which time they worked on new material without him, before they made up and decided to work on a new album. This new album, though, was going to be more democratic. As well as being all original material, they weren't having any of this nonsense about the lead singer singing lead. This time, whoever wrote the song was going to sing lead, so Kaylan only ended up singing lead on six of the twelve songs on what turned out to be their final album, Turtle Soup. They wanted a truly great producer for the new album, and they all made lists of who they might call. The lists included a few big names like George Martin and Phil Spector, but one name kept turning up -- Ray Davies. As we'll hear in the next episode, the Kinks had been making some astonishing music since "You Really Got Me", but most of it had not been heard in the US. But the Turtles all loved the Kinks' 1968 album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, which they considered the best album ever made: [Excerpt: The Kinks, "Animal Farm"] They got in touch with Davies, and he agreed to produce the album -- the first time he did any serious outside production work -- and eventually they were able to persuade White Whale, who had no idea who he was, to allow him to produce it. The resulting album is by far the group's strongest album-length work, though there were problems -- Davies' original mix of the album was dominated by the orchestral parts written by Wrecking Crew musician Ray Pohlman, while the group thought that their own instruments should be more audible, since they were trying to prove that they were a proper band. They remixed it themselves, annoying Davies, though reissues since the eighties have reverted to a mix closer to Davies' intentions. Some of the music, like Pons' "Dance This Dance With Me", perhaps has the group trying a little *too* hard to sound like the Kinks: [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Dance This Dance With Me"] But on the other hand, Kaylan's "You Don't Have to Walk in the Rain" is the group's last great pop single, and has one of the best lines of any single from the sixties -- "I look at your face, I love you anyway": [Excerpt: The Turtles, "You Don't Have to Walk in the Rain"] But the album produced no hits, and the group were getting more and more problems from their label. White Whale tried to get Volman and Kaylan to go to Memphis without the other band members to record with Chips Moman, but they refused -- the Turtles were a band, and they were proud of not having session players play their parts on the records. Instead, they started work with Jerry Yester producing on a new album, to be called Shell Shock. They did, though bow to pressure and record a terrible country track called "Who Would Ever Think That I Would Marry Margaret" backed by session players, at White Whale's insistence, but managed to persuade the label not to release it. They audited White Whale and discovered that in the first six months of 1969 alone -- a period where they hadn't sold that many records -- they'd been underpaid by a staggering six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. They sued the label for several million, and in retaliation, the label locked them out of the recording studio, locking their equipment in there. They basically begged White Whale to let them record one last great single, one last throw of the dice. Jim Pons had, for years, known a keyboard player named Bob Harris, and had recently got to know Harris' wife, Judee Sill. Sill had a troubled life -- she was a heroin addict, and had at times turned to streetwalking to earn money, and had spent time in prison for armed robbery -- but she was also an astonishing songwriter, whose music was as inspired by Bach as by any pop or folk composer. Sill had been signed to Blimp, the Turtles' new production and publishing company, and Pons was co-producing some tracks on her first album, with Graham Nash producing others. Pons thought one song from that album, "Lady-O", would be perfect for the Turtles: [Excerpt: Judee Sill, "Lady-O"] (music continues under) The Turtles stuck closely to Sill's vision of the song. So closely that you haven't noticed that before I started talking, we'd already switched from Sill's record to the Turtles' version. [Excerpt: The Turtles, "Lady-O"] That track, with Sill on guitar backing Kaylan, Volman, and Nichol's vocals, was the last Turtles single to be released while the band were together. Despite “Lady O” being as gorgeous a melody as has ever been produced in the rock world, it sank without trace, as did a single from the Shell Shock sessions released under a pseudonym, The Dedications. White Whale followed that up, to the group's disgust, with "Who Would Ever Think That I Would Marry Margaret?", and then started putting out whatever they had in the vaults, trying to get the last few pennies, even releasing their 1965 album track version of "Eve of Destruction" as if it were a new single. The band were even more disgusted when they discovered that, thanks to the flurry of suits and countersuits, they not only could no longer perform as the Turtles, but White Whale were laying legal claim to their own names. They couldn't perform under those names -- Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, and the rest were the intellectual property of White Whale, according to the lawyers. The group split up, and Kaylan and Volman did some session work, including singing on a demo for a couple of new songwriters: [Excerpt: Steely Dan, "Everyone's Gone to the Movies"] When that demo got the songwriters a contract, one of them actually phoned up to see if Kaylan wanted a permanent job in their new band, but they didn't want Volman as well, so Kaylan refused, and Steely Dan had to do without him. Volman and Kaylan were despondent, washed-up, has-been ex-rock stars. But when they went to see a gig by their old friend Frank Zappa, it turned out that he was looking for exactly that. Of course, they couldn't use their own names, but the story of the Phlorescent Leech and Eddie is a story for another time...

Another episode about Instagram??? At least it's not manifestation! “End Instagram” has been all over our feeds- and with good reason. Not only does the algorithm not work for anyone (except to show us ads), Instagram is basically Tik Tok at this point. On this week's episode, Nadine and Tarini discuss how Instagram is going the way of Facebook- trying to do too much, eventually not doing anything well, and losing even the one thing it did do well. Instagram, in their humble opinion, should stay in its lane as a photo sharing app. In the meantime, tune in next week for an update on Nadine's insta-cleanse and Tarini's update on the Riverdale season finale (if you know you know). Stream this week's episode wherever you listen to your podcast, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and follow on Instagram (if you aren't inspired to delete your Instagram after this episode) @ykwim.pod

On this week's episode, Nadine and Tarini discuss all things curly hair. But not how to take care of it (Ashley Tisdale already put out a video on that- IYKYK). Instead, it's about how curly hair is trendy and how it feels for people who have struggled with their hair forever. And while it may be trendy, when non-white people have curly hair it's still regarded as unruly, unkempt, unprofessional. Not only that, it's often shown as the “before” in makeovers and in movies, used as a way to denote characters as lower class, dirty, and often ugly. Listen to hear all their thoughts on curly hair, how it's represented, and why they ***will*** be gatekeeping (refer to Ashley Tisdale's curly hair tutorial). Stream wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

On last week's episode, Nadine and Tarini discussed the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade in the U.S. and its impact around the world. This week's episode continues the conversation in a different way. Women's bodies are constantly policed, whether through policy or in media. This week's episode explores not just the political implication on women's bodies but the social structures through which women and their bodies are conditioned to look, act, and feel. Listen to this week's episode wherever you get your podcast, follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod, and watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast.

The last week in politics has been… harrowing to say the least. The over turning of Roe v. Wade- which protects the right to an abortion- casts a dark shadow on the work countless people have been doing to push equality and democracy for everyone- especially those most marginalized. On this week's episode, Nadine and Tarini discuss what this means on a larger scale. Women's bodies have been up for grabs in every facet of society. Whether it's media, fashion, politics, family, and society at large, women's bodies have been controlled in some way, shape, and form - and all of them are harmful. It is with a heavy heart they discuss the impact this has on women but specifically marginalized communities whose intersectional identities render them most vulnerable. Listen to this week's episode wherever you stream your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

Regresan nuestros mixtapes hoy con los highlights del año 1997. Ricardo Portmán nos cuenta sus historias. Escucharemos Breathe (The Prodigy), Bitter Sweet Symphony (The Verve), Fuel (Metallica), I’m Afraid of Americans (David Bowie), D’You Know What I Mean? (Oasis), Beetlebum (Blur), Home (Depeche Mode), Everlong (Foo Fighters). Young Boy (Paul McCartney) y Paranoid Android (Radiohead) + Bonus tracks. Si os gusta el programa podéis apoyar Ecos del Vinilo Radio siendo patrocinadores ¡por lo que vale un café al mes! desde el botón azul de iVoox. Recuerden que nuestros programas los pueden escuchar también en: Nuestra web https://ecosdelvinilo.com Distancia Radio (Córdoba) miércoles 18:00 y domingos 23:00. Radio Free Rock (Cartagena) viernes 18:00. Radio M7 (Córdoba) lunes 18:00 y sábados 17:00. Generación Radio (Medellín, Colombia) jueves y domingos 19:00 (hora Col.) Radio Hierbabuena (Lima, Perú) jueves 20:00 (hora Perú)

Even if you haven't kept up with it- you've kept up with it (just ask Tarini). The Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp trial has been all over social media and it seems that everyone has an opinion. On this week's episode, Tarini and Nadine discuss some of these opinions they've seen online. This trial got so messy in the court of social media, it's hard to tell what is what. Although the support seemed to be overwhelmingly in Depp's favour, the question of abuse from both sides is abundantly clear. What makes it murky is when people try to claim whose abuse is valid - and why. Listen to this week's episode as Nadine and Tarini *try* to not have an opinion on this case and unpack the many narratives being spread online about this highly publicized trial. Streaming wherever you listen to your episodes, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

Nadine and Tarini are feeling anxious. What about? They're not sure. On this week's episode they talk about understanding the root cause of their anxiety, letting go of the “all or nothing” mindset, and question the famous saying: “what matters is the journey, not the destination” - isn't the destination what we're all working towards anyway? Also featured: Tarini's **packed** to-do list and an overstretched analogy involving airports and travel checkpoints. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

Surprise! We're back after a quick hiatus! Nadine talks about voting in the Lebanese elections for the first time with her family, leading to a conversation on the importance of staying political engaged in every election. Nadine cries at the polls (any poll! voting, instagram...etc), and Tarini asks everyone labelling themselves as "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" to stop. On a more serious note, they also discuss the killing of Palestinian icon and journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, and the hypocrisy of the West's response when it comes to crises in Europe versus the rest of the world. If you live in Ontario make sure you vote for the provincial elections on June 2nd (early voting has already started!!! For more information check out the Elections Ontario website) Listen wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

It was Nadine's birthday this week!!!! Which means she's one year closer to turning 30. While at one point that may have caused her anxiety (we just can NOT check the next box over on the doctor's office form that asks your age, IYKYK) with age comes wisdom and this year it's ~no big deal~ (in the tik tok voice because that's all Nadine speaks in, again IYKYK). On this week's episode, Nadine and Tarini also discuss entering your Saturn return - which happens when you enter 27. It's the time that Saturn returns into the same zodiac that it was in when you were born and is often a time that people go through big changes in their lives. Listen if you feel like you're also entering your Saturn return and feel like it's being unfair to you (it's not, it's growth!) or to learn about what it even is. Often in life we seek things that give us a sense of security or explanation when we're going through hard situations - one of those explanations could be your Saturn return (or this episode about it). Listen wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

The pandemic taught us many things but one of the most important ones was the need to rest. On this week's episode, Tarini and Nadine discuss how rest as we know it has evolved over the course of the pandemic. It continues to do so, as things start to reopen and people look towards a “post pandemic” world. Both realities have brought about burnout - whether it's because of change, not enough connection, or too much connection. And if we aren't proactive, our bodies force us to rest. But rest isn't just taking a break- sometimes rest looks like doing more. More of what you enjoy, more of what gives you energy, more of what allows you to show up the way you want to (it could even be listening to YKWIM). Listen wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

The devil works hard but Kris Jenner works harder. Which is probably why the Kardashians have finished (what feels like) their 100th season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and, before that's even completed, launched their new show (we don't know what it is called because we have not kept up with the Kardashians). This week on YKWIM, Tarini and Nadine broach the world of the Kardashians. There's so much to unpack from the Variety interview to the infamous Pepsi commercial - Nadine and Tarini talk about the impact the Kardashian/ Jenner clan have had on society, their responsibility as mega stars, and our obsession with them as a society. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Pod and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

At this point, this podcast should be renamed to some version of The Secret. Nadine and Tarini are back this week with, as what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, an episode is all about signs. Whether you believe in divine intervention or not, some “coincidences” make it hard to believe that things are, well, just that - a coincidence. Tarini and Nadine discuss the difference between manifestation vs a sign (there *is* a difference and they *definitely* know it), signs that they look out for in their own lives and what they mean, and how to look out for them in your own life. They're like life/ the universe/ whatever you believe in nudging you in the right direction. And if nothing else, it feels nice to know that someone or something out there has your back. Listen wherever you like to stream your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and follow on Insta @ykwim.pod

Last week, Nadine's credit card struck again and she bought another meet and great with an influencer. This one wasn't a one on one but a group q&a where people started asking… personal questions. Influencers are a new wave of celebrities. They're the version of celebrities we feel closer to, like they're accessible to us. Especially with social media, the line between the elite and us commoners has been blurred. On this week's episode, Tarini and Nadine talk about what happens when people start to feel (maybe too?) close to celebrities and influencers, like they might even be friends. While YouTube, tik tok, and Instagram have made it so that we are privy to all parts of influencers' lives, there's still etiquette to be maintained and boundaries to be upheld. Listen to this week's episode wherever you stream your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

While it feels like we're out of the pandemic, we're actually not. And it's in fact quite the opposite- coronavirus remains raging across the world, mutating faster than Nadine can swipe her credit card (so you know it's fast). On this week's episode, Tarini and Nadine discuss this dissonance and how it's impacting our world - from big decisions we feel like we have to make because of this ~*uNpReCeDeNtEd TiMe*~, to retailers missing the mark and going out of business because they, too, can't figure out what's going on. 2020 BC (before coronavirus) is a time we all miss… but is it really? Nadine and Tarini talk about how while we think we want things to go back to “normal”, there's quite a lot we're actually okay leaving behind- and that's reflected in the choices we make. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that the only constant is change (and every decision you make doesn't have to be monumental- we're all just doing the best we can with what we have). Listen wherever you stream your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod

This week's guest Bob Fay (Sebadoh, Deluxx, Cardinal) has played on a wide swath of punk/indie releases, so it makes perfect sense that the album he chose to discuss was 'Songs in the Key of Life' by Stevie Wonder, right? Right?? Both Elton John and Michael Jackson sited it as a personal favorite, and Prince simply called it the best album ever recorded - so Bob may be onto something... Songs featured in this episode: Temptation Tide, Ocean - Sebadoh; Glory Halleloo - Reverend Blind Gary Davis; Love's in Need of Love Today, Have a Talk With God, Village Ghetto Land, Contusion, Sir Duke, I Wish, Knocks Me Off My Feet - Stevie Wonder; You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck; Maniac - Michael Sembello; Split Red - Minutemen; Gangster's Paradise - Coolio; Summer Soft, Ordinary Pain, Isn't She Lovely, Joy Inside My Tears, Black Man, As - Stevie Wonder;  Paper Planes - M.I.A.; Take The A Train - Duke Ellington; Sforzando! - Sebadoh

You know what they say, imitation is the greatest form of flattery. And it is, in a way. Inspiration is found everywhere and social media has made it so easy to be inspired. Whether it's other artists or even just content you see on people's platforms, it's a great way to stay on top of trends and follow what you like. But it also gets complicated when the line between inspiration and imitation start to blur. And while it can be flattering, it can also be dangerous. On this week's episode, Nadine and Tarini discuss everything from making money from “inspired” content all the way to the danger of copying of queer/ racialized/ creators from historically marginalized communities' work. Once again, they blame it on #capitalism (their favourite perpetrator) - but in the (social media) world in which we operate, we all have a responsibility to do better and be better. Listen wherever you steam your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod.

Rituals are meant to calm us, keep us grounded, help our wellbeing- but what if they no longer serve that purpose? Enter Tarini and Nadine: lovers of rituals but haters of actually doing them lol. Okay, that's only half true and while they have definitely mastered the art of creating these so called complicated rituals, do they really need them? On this week's episode, Nadine and Tarini discuss why we have rituals, what they really mean, and what they've learned from their own. From bullet journaling to saje-ing they have tried it all and the only thing that's stuck is absolutely nothing. Love that for them. Listen to this week's episode wherever you get your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod.

This week's episode isn't one Tarini and Nadine thought they'd be recording. If you had told them even just a year ago that they'd be talking about the REAL secret (which is that the secret isn't real- iykyk) they'd have told you to stop speaking negativity into existence (lol they hate themselves too). But we are all about ✨growth✨ here at YKWIM and three years into a pandemic has given Nadine and Tarini time (too much, one might even say) to rethink just about everything. And one of those things is the power of manifestation and positive thinking. As a follow up to their previous episode “The Power Of Positive Thinking”, listen to this week's episode wherever you stream your podcasts, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod. Post referenced in episode linked below: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWW-w-AKWI6/?utm_medium=copy_link

This latest group of songs on our new Jazzcast feature 2 and 3 guitar orchestrations of Lou's newest songs, jams and rhythm-feels. Some tunes have the two guitar parts simulating the left-hand and right-hand of the piano. The songs: YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, SECRET PASSAGEWAY, THE REAL STORY, ONE STEP UP and TAKE TWO. Enjoy!  

On this episode of Ichimon Japan we ask: Is Yamaguchi cursed to have "ugly" girls? We also discuss other places in Japan known for having many beautiful/ugly women. Topics Discussed The three most scenic views in Japan What the Sandaibijin (三大美人) is What places in Japan are most known for having beautiful women Fukuoka (Hakata), Akita, and Kyoto's status as places in Japan known for having many beautiful women How Kanazawa/Ishikawa/Kaga is known for having beautiful women Some theories about why Hakata, Akita and Kyoto (supposedly) have so many beautiful women The theory that short days and humid climate contributes to the white and moist skin of Akita's women How white/fair skin is considered beautiful by many in Japan The theory that the women of Kyoto are cultured and refined so that results in there being so many beautiful women in Kyoto The theory that collagen consumption via motsunabe and chicken helps produce the beautiful women of Hakata How pleasure districts might be connected to the impression that Akita, Fukuoka, and Kyoto have many beautiful women The idea that the Sea of Japan side of Japan is home to many beautiful women The theory that genetic mixing may be a reason for why the Sea of Japan side of Japan supposedly has so many beautiful women What the Sandaibusu (三大ブス) is The three places in Japan known for having "ugly women" Sendai, Nagoya, and Mito's status as the three places in Japan known for having many ugly women The theory that claims Tokugawa Yoshifusa sent groups of "ugly" women to Sendai, Nagoya, and Wakayama Nagoya's reputation as a boring place The so-called urban legend that women from Yamaguchi are all ugly The story of Oman's curse as a possible explanation for why women from Yamaguchi are supposedly ugly Throwing snakes at women And much more! Support on Patreon If you enjoy Ichimon Japan and want to ensure that we're able to produce more episodes, then please consider becoming a patron on Patreon.com. You can join for just $1 a month and that comes with perks like early access to episodes, a shout-out at the beginning of a future episode, bonus content, and discounts to Kimito Designs. For $3 a month you get all that plus access to Japanese Plus Alpha, a podcast produced by me (Tony Vega) that focuses on the Japanese language and its many quirks. Whether you are studying Japanese or just enjoy learning about language and linguistics, you'll enjoy Japanese Plus Alpha. And it goes without saying that if you sign up, you'll also get my undying gratitude. Thanks in advance! Support on Patreon Sources, Links, Videos, Etc. Here are some of the Japanese language articles found when researching the topic of this episode. もっともブスな女性が多そうな街は…「日本三大ブス」説が崩壊？ 茨城ブスについて。　都市伝説をさらっと考えてみる。 石川県金沢市は美女が多いのでしょうか？ 日本三大美人の根拠＆美人が多いと思われている都道府県は？ 日本三大美人！なぜ、この三県が？その理由やいかに！ 秋田・京都・福岡が「日本三大美人」に選ばれた理由とは？　様々な三大○○に面白おかしく迫る！ 山口ブス伝説 【山口ブス伝説】女子にとっては超迷惑な「姫山伝説」知ってる？ 姫山のお万 月曜から夜更かし「山口呪われたブス伝説」 （山口姫山伝説）のルーツ？ 【ネタ】山口の女性はブスばかり？「呪われた山口県ブス伝説」に迫る     Don't forget to check out the latest episodes of the Japan Station podcast via the links below. Black Box: Discussing the Shiori Ito Story (Allison Markin Powell Part 1) | Japan Station 72 You Know What I Mean? On Translating Japanese Fiction (Allison Markin Powell Part 2) | Japan Station 73 Support the show by picking up a t-shirt at KimitoDesigns.com. Check out Kimito Designs Japanese Vocabulary List Most episodes feature at least one or two interesting Japanese words or phrases. Here's some of the ones that came up on this episode. All information is from Jim Breen's WWWJDIC. Bijin Busu We Want Your Questions Is there something about Japan that confuses you? Is there something about Japanese culture that you would like to learn more about? Is there something in Japanese history that you would like us to explain? We're always looking for new questions about Japan to answer, so if you have one, please send it to ichimon@japankyo.com. Special Thanks Opening/Closing Theme: Produced by Apol (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Fiverr) Ichimon Japan cover art: Produced by Erik R. Follow Japankyo on Social Media Facebook (@JapanKyoNews) Twitter (@JapanKyoNews) Full Show Notes https:///www.japankyo.com/ichimonjapan

It seems like every time you turn on the news there's something new happening, and in the worst way. Nadine and Tarini have been trying to record this episode for weeks now but it's impossible to talk about any one tragedy that's taken place in the world without talking about them all - because they're all connected, also in the worst way. The structures of oppression that have maintained the occupation in Palestine are the same that continue to allow the occupation in Kashmir are the same that have allowed for Canada's history of colonization. It's important to draw parallels between these two in particular because it highlights the role the West has played in the narrative of the East. This week, Nadine and Tarini discuss today's global affairs (their favourite issue) and how to learn to acknowledge your own bias to start and dismantle the systems in which we operate that uphold oppression against marginalized communities. Want more YKWIM? Follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod, on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and stream on your favourite podcasting platform.

There is a lot going on in the world right now, and it’s not easy to keep up on a good day, let alone when it feels like everything is on fire around you. This week’s episode is about how to avoid feeling overwhelmed while staying educated about global affairs (fun not fun game: take a shot every time someone says global affairs). Tarini and Nadine discuss the pressure social media puts on everyone - no matter how you’re engaging - to be doing it differently. It’s also made everyone the last word on everything, which is harmful for a whole different set of reasons. Staying vigilant and aware of what’s happening to the communities around you has certainly become easier with the rise of social media being used to disseminate news and raise awareness, but not without its challenges. Especially during *unprecedented times* like these, that continue to amaze us (in the worst way) with how unprecedented and precedented they truly are, somehow both at the same time, even consuming media can lead to burnout. Listen to hear Nadine and Tarini talk about what’s happening around the world and how they’re keeping up (and making it count). Follow along on Instagram @ykwim.pod, on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, or wherever you like to stream your podcasts to listen to this week’s episode and catch up on ones you’ve missed.

Tbt to when Nadine and Tarini thought this pandemic would end “and once it’s over, we’ll wish we’d made better use of this time”. Over a year into the pandemic, and with the situation seemingly only getting worse worldwide, the only thing that’s becoming abundantly clear is that there is no longer a time in our lives that won’t be impacted by the pandemic. In fact, this pandemic has highlighted how society and societal institutions continue to fail communities most marginalized and that world leaders are not leading their countries with success. The devil works hard, but capitalism works harder. And that’s proven to be true even a worldwide pandemic. On this week’s episode, Tarini and Nadine discuss the global vaccine supply shortages, smear campaigns against different brands, and what the divide between who does and doesn’t have access to safe vaccination actually means. Unfortunately this pandemic won’t end until we learn to support those most vulnerable to economic and social downfall and the sooner we learn that, the better it will be for all of us. Until then, stay safe, stay home, and do what you can to stay sane! If that includes YKWIM, listen on all major streaming platforms and follow along on Instagram @ykwim.pod and on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast.

Everyone’s been talking about Ginny and Georgia, namely Taylor Swift. After calling out the show and Netflix for a joke made against her in bad taste, instead of the show being held accountable, it instead got all the publicity it needed. As they say, no attention is bad attention. So on this week’s episode, Nadine and Tarini watched Ginny and Georgia and they have some thoughts (when do they not). This is an extra special episode because it’s the first time (!!!!!) that Nadine has actually watched, in its entirety, a show Tarini has told her to - that alone is worthy of an episode. Ginny and Georgia is about the relationship between a mom and daughter, and their experience in a new town called Wellsbury. From relationships to murder to destigmatizing mental health and women’s sexuality, this show literally tries to do it all - a jack of all trades but a master of none is how Tarini would sum it up in a sentence. Some things it does well, some things it misses the mark on, but what’s for sure is that it’s a Netflix algorithm hit. Listen to this episode if you’ve watched the show or if you’re wondering whether you should and looking for something new to start during the third (!!!!!!!) lockdown in Ontario. Don’t forget to keep up with all things YKWIM on Instagram @ykwim.pod, YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and to listen wherever you stream your podcasts.

This week’s episode brings a special guest to YKWIM! Meet Haniya - a second year resident physician in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology program at the University of Toronto. She holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences from McMaster University and a Master of Science in Systems Leadership and Innovation from the University of Toronto, which she completed as a LEAD Scholar. In her off time, she teaches a part-time introductory course on the fundamentals of global health at McMaster University, and indulges in new ice-creams spots, short and long walks, and the latest Netflix shows. Anyone who has ever listened to one of Nadine and Tarini’s conversations knows they love to talk about everything health and wellness. But with so much information (and so many opinions) that women are constantly bombarded with, it’s not always to tell fact from fiction. That’s why Haniya is here to chat with Tarini and Nadine about women’s health as it relates to women today. From contemporary issues (do women in their twenties need to worry about freezing their eggs?) to old wives tales (cranberry juice cures UTIs!), they discuss it all. The health care world is an important space in which, like many others, women’s specific needs are not always acknowledged. Health equity remains a big challenge that this episode touches upon, and especially how the pandemic has exacerbated the need to focus on women’s health - now more than ever. Listen on all major streaming platforms, follow YKWIM on Instagram @YKWIM.POD, or watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast.

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The Mixxxtape es una selección musical hecha y mezclada por Dr. Rai creada exclusivamente para ESE MOMENTO. (Sabes a lo que me refiero). Disfruten la cuarta entrega de esta serie... ------------------------------------ The Mixxxtape' is a musical selection by: Dr Rai Created exclusively for THAT moment. (You Know What I Mean). Enjoy the Fourth Tape of this series...

March is International Women’s History Month and this past Monday we celebrated International Women’s Day. The fight for women’s equality is a definitely nothing new. It’s a tale as old as Adam and Eve - and, in fact, this week’s episode discusses just that. The oppression of women dates back to the beginning of seemingly all religion and is woven deeply in all societal institutions - no one and nothing is immune. From politics to everyday interactions, women are constantly having to fight for a way to the top - and then it’s another fight to actually get to the top. Forget the top, it’s a battle to get anywhere - figuratively and literally. Whether it’s catcalling or the systemic disenfranchisement of women, join Tarini and Nadine as they discuss the importance of this day and month, and what it means to them as women with intersectional identities. The good news? Because the ill treatment of women goes so far and so deep, finding ways to support women is easier and more accessible than ever. Support women artists, shop from stores owned by women, and if nothing else, speak up in front of your friends, family, peers, and coworkers when you hear something that’s not right. Let’s all start holding each other accountable and start paying women (literally and figuratively) what they’re owed. Follow along on Instagram @ykwim.pod, watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and stream wherever you like to catch up on your podcasts

The truest form of self care is learning more about yourself - and we all know how much YKWIM loves self care. There are a million tests you can take online (the Myers-Briggs, Enneagram type, to name a few) that we take the easy route by letting these online quizzes tell us about ourselves instead of figuring it out on our own. This week’s episode was supposed to be about love languages - another quiz you can take online, but what is more important than loving yourself? This week, Nadine and Tarini discuss how hard the pandemic has been (surprise surprise) and how the need for self care is more important now than ever. Taking quizzes are super fun (it’s literally what Buzzfeed has built its following upon) but relying on them can actually be detrimental towards our actual process of ~self discovery~. We’re constantly changing, growing, and reacting to the events around us (like the pandemic!!!) that impact us in ways we only understand by truly being connected to ourselves. Take this as a sign to do something for, and become closer with, yourself. Listen on all major streaming platforms and follow on Instagram @ykwim.pod or watch on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast.

... at least during a pandemic. But it seems like everyone’s sticking to the original version because every time we log on to Instagram, there is without a doubt a new person flying to Mexico (Ted Cruz, Ontario finance minister, that girl from your highschool who thinks she’s an influencer, actual influencers) - the list goes on. On this week’s episode, Nadine and Tarini discuss the two kinds of vacationers during the pandemic - the one who thinks they’re in an ad for itravel2000 and those who enter the witness protection program before boarding their flight. But on a serious note, this pandemic has hit those with structural and societal inequities stacked against them the most. While those communities fight for basic rights like food, shelter, and safety for themselves and their families, it seems a little tone deaf to be travelling to “take a break” from the pandemic. No doubt it’s been hard on everyone in many different ways, but putting yourself (and others!) in covid’s line of sight is definitely not helping anyone. So as the Ontario government concisely put it: we’re opening the economy but STAY AT HOME but the mall is open but STAY AT HOME but restaurants are open but STAY AT HOME. Want more YKWIM? Follow us on Instagram @ykwim.pod, on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast, and on your favourite streaming platform.

This week’s episode features YKWIM’s second guest! Say hello to Krystal of KrystalRoseFit, a holistic health coach and certified trainer blazing her own path in the health and wellness world. If you’ve ever listened to an episode you know the only thing we like more than saying “you know what I mean?” is talking about health and wellness and this week’s episode is about exactly that. Krystal, Nadine, and Tarini discuss what holistic health means, how today’s world has impacted our wellness, and how to create sustainable habits around health and wellness. February and March are the biggest months for health and wellness, so show yourself some self love this Valentine’s Day, listen to this episode, and treat yourself to a new wellness routine - you deserve it. Keep up with all things YKWIM on Instagram @ykwim.pod or on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast. Streaming on all major streaming platforms.

This Thursday was #BellLetsTalk Day - a term coined by Bell Media to dedicate a day to raising awareness about mental health. For every share, repost, and retweet, the company donates five cents towards mental health programs. While this may seem like an altruistic initiative at first, programs started by large corporations rarely are. The very fact that Bell Media - one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies started #BellLetsTalk by pledging ten cents for every share, and has now dropped it to five cents as the initiative gained momentum, says it all. This week, Nadine and Tarini discuss what #BellLetsTalk has become, what is represents, and whether or not it actually does what it claims to - raise awareness and break the stigma around mental health. Notably, this week’s episode also has the worst connection issues to date, and Bell is Tarini and Nadine’s wifi service provider. Coincidence? We think not. The FBI agents are always listening and as Nadine says on this episode, “capitalism supports capitalism”. Want to know more? Stream on all major streaming platform at You Know What I Mean?, follow us on Instagram @ykwim.pod, and watch the episode on YouTube at You Know What I Mean? Podcast.

Life Coach Tammy Ward from Embrace Life Boldly: Hesitation, Hiding, Hypercritical, and helplessness. When self-doubt shows up we hesitate to act, or we hide or avoid certain people, places, and things. We talk smack to ourselves for having self-doubt and for BEING HYPERCRITICAL ON OURSELVES. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN….. THE WHY DO I ALWAYS OVER EAT, WHY DO I END UP SCREAMING AT EVERYONE, WHY DO I NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR ME, or I HOPE THEY LIKED WHAT I DID FOR THEM. Then at the end of feeling bad for feeling bad, we feel helpless because we once again have allowed self-doubt to boss us around. Find the strength to disrupt the negative story, see the parts of your life experiences, where you know amazing things can happen. Seeing your strength in your story defeats self-doubt and that is when you evolve, that is when you grow, that is when you have the aha moments Oprah talks about all the time. All the things, the people, the problems, you have endured in life, was supposed to happen, everything is meant for a reason Overcoming is creating new thought patterns and habits: your negative pattern of self-doubt stops you before you begin. You have to go to WAR against these patterns. My loves I hope you have enjoyed this episode on self-doubt, it would be great if you could leave a review, subscribe to this podcast and by all means Please share this with your friends, family, and co-workers we all need to support each other in personal growth. IF you are ready to get down to the nitty-gritty and invest in yourself to begin to love and trust your thoughts, to have someone stand with you and by you while you travel this journey of life. Go to my website at www.coach-tammy.com to book a session today. Your story begins with you, fight for you. Until next time Keep Loving, Keep growing, and keep embracing life boldly. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tammy-ward/message

Let's face it much of the time we wear t shirts and sweatpants. Dumpy is the standard. Often the woman is decked out to the MAX and the guy, well he looks like he just got out of bed. Upgrading your packaging can have KICK ASS RESULTS. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!! Catch my interview here with THE BAD ASS HABERDASHER and discover ways that you can dress sharp. AS ZZ Top sings “EVERY WOMAN LOVES A SHARP DRESSED MAN”. Find him at BAD ASS HABERDASHERY  http://www.badasshaberdashery.com/optin   ACOUSTIC WAVE MEDICAL GRADE FDA REGISTERED ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION THERAPY AT HOME, AT A FRACTION OF THE COST Get More Information and Get The Phoenix Here https://www.getmyphoenix.com/oldguy  Catch My Interview With Dustin Wolff The co -inventor of the rocket https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loss-of-emotional-and-physical-intimacy-is-painful/id1495732194?i=1000492565807 https://www.getmyphoenix.com/oldguy

’Tis the season for endless holiday specials. I remember torturing my parents by requiring us to all watch the same crappy shows every year… “Here Comes Santa Claus” or “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” or watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade or seeing “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” for the upteenth time… it was really a sacrifice because back then we didn’t have more than one TV in the house and it wasn’t like my Dad could watch something else or play on his iPad while I watched “A Very Brady Christmas” again. I’m surprised I wasn’t abused. But now, you can get back at your kids by listening to this on the way to wherever you are going … Let’s start with a Thanksgiving sketch about everyone’s favorite holiday side dish… “It’s a New World Delicacy” Of course, Thanksgiving is great and all… especially when that one uncle with the confederate flag on his truck drinks a little too much and starts a good, healthy conversation about politics… but let’s face it, Thanksgiving only exists so that we can celebrate the holiday that really matters… Black Friday! Here are a couple of sketches that really highlight the pleasant memories of Black Friday’s past… “It’s More Like Brown Friday, You Know What I Mean?” “The Saddest Part of Black Friday” You know it’s time to really hit the holiday gas when Starbucks brings out their holiday cups. Really, how else are you going to know when to start drinking peppermint mochas and put a lid on the pumpkin spice for a year. That’s right, there has never been a year those cups didn’t completely disappoint and cause people to lose their damn minds. “Red Cups” Now we get to the part of the show that is all musical. I’ll just let these go uninterrupted. First up, we have a song about Santa Claus that may have been unexpectedly kinky, then we have another classic that features a celebrity that takes an already rape-y song and makes it more rape-y. After that, we have rock legend Don Henley send mixed signals with his holiday classic and that is followed up by an updated version of “The Grinch” which will likely give you reason to head to UrbanDictionary.com. “The Most Unintentionally Inappropriate Christmas Song of All Time” "Baby It's Coz In Here" “Don Henley’s Most Personal Song Ever” “How The Grinch Stole Innocence” Hopefully all of those wonderful songs got your toes tapping and your voices all prepped, because one of the best things about the holidays is accosting your fellow neighbors with your unprepared voices to regale them with songs that you likely don’t know while they keep their front doors open to the bitter cold. That’s right, caroling! “Carols of the Dumbbells” What is Christmas going to become in the future? Well, we know one thing that will never go out of style… nostalgia. What is nostalgia going to look like in 2036? Kids will be just as disappointed as they are now. “Christmas Nostalgia from the Future” Well, that concludes Sketch Comedy Podcast Show’s End-of-Year One-Hour Holiday Special. I hope you have had a fun time listening, had a wonderful year and have all of your loved-ones near and close to you. Stay warm and enjoy eating all the goodies! I look forward to bringing you more interesting people having intriguing conversations and then improvising comedy sketches based on what we talked about next year and hopefully many years afterwards. As a special special bonus, after the end credits there is a song performed by former co-host Alisha Holland where she purposely does a horrible rendition of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas”. Enjoy! Sketch Comedy Podcast show is an independent and completely improvised sketch podcast that is based on conversations with interesting people like YOU! We welcome all suggestions, and we are always looking for new and interesting people to have on the podcast. Thank you so much for watching and listening, and please check out our other links for more information, interaction and overall fun! For more episodes, information, and a chance to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.com **SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sketchcomedypodcastshow TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sketchcompod INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/sketchcompod **SUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWS APPLE: http://bit.ly/SCPSitunes GOOGLE: http://bit.ly/SCPSgplay RSS: https://scps.fireside.fm/rss PODCHASER: https://www.podchaser.com/SketchComedyPodcastShow Sketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. © Copyright 2019 Marathon Productions, LLC. Special Guest: Joseph "Zombie" Zuko | Zombie Author.

fuck a bmi, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?! u got large bodies u got smol bodies, and guess what, UR body is PERFECT just the way it is (cue my personal remix to billy joel's "just the way u r") ANYWAYS, this week we are talkin' to the incomparable Jamie and Zonía about how med school is just as complicit in churnin' out the docs that u may have heard of from last week's episode. get ready to scream into the void theydies, because this one is a dooooozy. xoxoxox, the coven theme music as always by brandon payton-carrillo

Welcome to Season 2 of the podcast! As you know, Hey Purpose, Pods & PR chronicles Tiffany's journey as she navigates her purpose and this season we have some exciting updates for you! The first episode, Life is Good...You Know What I Mean?!? will address some of the things that have happened since the onset of #covid19 and where she is as of today. You'll also learn about up and coming events and hear from one of our sponsors. Buckle up for a very interesting season! Be sure to join us Friday, 7/3/20 on YouTube Live at 8pm EST for The Virtual Connection by clicking the following link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC05z8EQmmz6y2mTjwYiOQ3w You can also follow us on IG by clicking here, where you will receive up to date information on the latest news with the platform: https://www.instagram.com/pods_and_pr/ Visit our website at www.podsandpr.com today! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podsandpr/message

There was a lot of feedback from YKWIM’s episode “How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days” - like, a lot. But it got Nadine and Tarini thinking about what it means to be a woman in the dating world. There are so many double standards and imposed virtues when it comes to how someone, especially a woman, should act. This week’s episode is about challenging that norm and making a case for owning whichever part of yourself you want - exactly what acting like a lady means. Want more episodes? Subscribe to You Know What I Mean on your favourite streaming service and follow along on Instagram @ykwim.pod or using the link below: https://www.instagram.ca/YKWIM.pod

PTOUnlimited Podcast Episode #196 "Exajerbated...You Know What I Mean!" with Special Guest Justin from Juice in the Morning Podcast Twitter/Instagram: JuiceintheAM Facebook: facebook.com/juiceinthemorning This episode focuses on retro video games, Aaron Hernandez, Football trivia, Either/Or, Millennial Slang, PTO Movie Club: Requiem For A Dream, and more! Check us out on social media: https://linktr.ee/ptounlimited_podcast Follow us on YouTube: bit.ly/ptolive Follow our podcast weekly and see how we can argue, reminisce, and chat about interesting topics!

"You Know What I Mean?" launches on Tuesday, April 16th

Holy Crap, our youngest is now A TEENAGER! When did this happen? Well, we know, it happened last week, it was his 13th birthday - but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! Ethan gives his take on life and his world, including a little thing called FORTNITE (old folk, or people with young kids, look it up!) Have a listen and HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM Christina and John and family.

This week, we gotta a desperate letter from a friend who needed us to watch Live. Die. Repeat. Unfortunately we could not find that movie. I'm pretty sure it was erased from the time stream and replaced by Edge of Tomorrow from 2014! Emily Blunt stars as a total badass who kills aliens as easily as the rest of us pass gas. Oh, and Tom Cruise is in it too I guess. It's an excellent action sci-fi movie that has the feel of a video game with the baggage! YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. Email: pleasedontpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/pdsmiosTwitter: twitter.com/outerspacepodPatreon: patreon.com/eartrumpetKo-fi: ko-fi.com/pdsmioswww.eartrumpetaudio.com Full episode list available at https://letterboxd.com/jdtmovies/list/please-dont-send-me-into-outer-space-podcast/ Notes:Free Fallin' by Kevin Bacon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5RjHELoev0

 Today The Real Delia & Mr. DLW discuss some of the things that we commemorate with special emphasis given to Childhood Cancer Awareness. Also discussions of some recent news stories. What's going on with the crazy things the Republicans are saying in public. . . kinda makes you thing they're saying even crazier things in private. . . YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. . . . HMMMMMM          One of our success stories, here on the JKN, even though each show host is their own content supervisor within a guideline and responsible for their own shows, this “lady cab driver” not only works hard for her money, but works hard for her show.  Started her show on Sunday, following the original THE WAY I SEE IT with Jay King the original show for this foundation, now on every Monday at 4pm.  Mind clenching episodes and talk about today's fab, if you're ready!  347-205-9366.    

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Live Chat :International Reggae Icon Unsong Hero Jimmy London Jimmy London (born Trevor Shaw, 30 November 1949 in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica) is a reggae singer who first recorded in the late 1960s, and achieved chart success both in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in the early and mid-1970s.London was a member of vocal duo The Inspirations, along with Ransford White (later known as Billy Dyce). White's brother Doraney was a member of The Techniques, and the duo hung out at the Techniques rehearsal premises on King Street, becoming friendly with Roy Shirley, who helped them to get started in the music business. They recorded their debut single "I Need Money" for producer Sir JJ at Linden Pottinger's studio, but when it failed to make much impact, they moved on to work with Lee "Scratch" Perry, recording "Tighten Up" (twice, it was originally recorded at WIRL, but re-voiced at Studio One). They released a further song for Perry, "You Know What I Mean", but dissatisfied with the attention they received from Perry, moved on to Joe Gibbs. With Gibbs, they recorded tracks such as "Take Back Your Duck", "La La", and "The Train is Coming".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_London_%28reggae_singer%29 copyright 2015 caribbeanradioshow.com 661-467-2407 caribbeanradioshow@gmail.com

00:00 Syncopated Strangers > 02:50 Conduit > 06:54 Syncopated Strangers (3.11.10 - Orpheum Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin) 11:37 Nothing Too Fancy > 21:58 Divisions (1.16.10 - Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, California) 43:50 You Know What I Mean (2.13.10 - Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, North Carolina) 50:00 Booth Love* (3.12.10 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota) 61:17 Got Your Milk (Right Here) > 64:50 Nothing Too Fancy (2.09.10 - WorkPlay Soundstage, Birmingham, Alabama) Total Broadcast Length 73:31 Notes: * with Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley) jam