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Let's Chat!!Boo, Bitches! Autumn is here, and we're releasing our bullshit—but keeping our cardigans. In this Cauldrons of Chaos mini episode, River explores simple autumn witchcraft for messy, busy, very human lives: release rituals, celebrating your personal harvest, protecting your peace, and cozy magick that doesn't require eleven chopped vegetables. Grab your favorite mug and join us for practical witchy wisdom, seasonal sass, and a reminder that a leaf cannot manage your calendar.Support the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Oh man, what a cliffhanger! I hope we get the conclusion to it immediately! Or…are we going to hear the other side? No, no, that's fine. I just…I need to see the outcome. But I can wait! As long as we get it next episode…right?Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat

This week on SlashU we did a countdown episode. We each went through our favorite five movies of the ones that we have covered and took a stroll down memory lane. If you're looking for ideas for what to watch as far as your next cheesy, campy, sometimes forgotten slasher movie, then this episode is for you! Listen, tell a friend, and enjoy the show.Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .This episode is part time-warp, part grief journal, part "would you rather" game night — and somehow all of it hangs together the way only a real friendship can hold contradictions. Queenie kicks things off with a piece she read about time compression — why the years feel like they're moving at warp speed the older you get. The culprit? Routine. When your brain isn't learning anything new, it stops making new memories, and without new memories, your days blur into one long beige smear. The fix, apparently, is annoyingly simple: reverse your walking route, switch up your morning routine, eat tapas instead of Tuesday's meatloaf. TT's immediate reaction is basically "absolutely not, I love my routine," which, same. But she concedes she could maybe do her exercise before her morning games-and-tea ritual a couple of days a week. Which decade felt longest? TT votes for roughly ages eight to eighteen — all that learning, all that brain expansion. Makes sense. Queenie says her forties, no contest — action-packed, full, dense with life. But since hitting fifty? Whoosh. She can't believe Mia is in high school. TT adds that grandchildren help you mark the years in a way nothing else does; without them, twenty years can just feel like a blur you walked through. There's something quietly sad about that observation, and neither of them lingers on it, because that's not really the CDQ way. Then Robert Frost slides in to close the loop: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." Whether you want it to or not. Queenie delivers this like a period at the end of a very long sentence. The episode's emotional center of gravity, though, is Queenie's mother. She's been in rehab at Sunnyview for nearly two weeks after a fall — 93 years old, fractured bones she's literally walking on, cardiac and pulmonary issues, now oxygen-dependent around the clock. Four hours of therapy some days. The woman is working. But the picture is complicated. The oxygen dependency isn't resolving. Discharge is coming fast, and the original plan — home with an aide — has quietly given way to a harder conversation about assisted living. Not as a defeat, but as a reality check. Enhanced assisted living it is. But the truly raw part of this conversation is what's happening at the edges of the medical logistics. Queenie's mom keeps pointing up — toward heaven — when asked where she wants to go. She talks about Andrew, the child born and lost decades ago, the one she never got to hold because she was under anesthesia the entire time he was alive. Hyaline membrane disease. She tells Queenie she can't wait to see him, even though he doesn't know her. Queenie relays this moment with a stunned quiet that doesn't need elaboration. Her mother is also, apparently, one of the more spiritually pragmatic 93-year-olds out there: when Queenie mentioned medical aid in dying — a relatively new law in New York — her mom's first response wasn't shock. Queenie herself didn't hesitate when her mother asked if she'd use it personally. Yes. No pause. The broader grief of all this hangs in the room. Queenie's whole day used to be structured around her mother — the camera checks, the reminder calls, the timed check-ins. Now there's a gap in the day that doesn't know what to do with itself. She misses her mom's presence in her daily rhythm even while her mom is still alive. TT names it: this is slow grief. Letting go, both of them, at the same time. The person dying and the family, both suffering in silence in a culture that doesn't have rituals for dying — only rituals for after. Queenie: "It's a sausage of grief." That is the most accurate description of anticipatory grief anyone has ever given on a cannabis podcast. From there, the episode pivots with the grace of a woman who's had enough heavy lifting for one morning. TT's Choice lands on number 36: "What if your most difficult family member was suddenly easy to get along with? Would you trust it?" TT's answer is immediate and unambiguous: no. Not only would she not trust it, it would actively irritate her. Queenie, high on a pre-roll from the Sunflower Collection No. 9 variety pack (four strains, color coded, picked up by TT from Haven dispensary in P-town on her behalf), takes a more circuitous route to the same answer — she has trouble identifying her most difficult family member on the spot, which TT clearly finds unconvincing, and eventually lands on: probably not, but she might be an idiot for it. The Fuck It List this week: TT is saying fuck it to stressing about the state of her home before having people over. Queenie backs her up hard, citing a reel she stumbled across of a real family home — magnets on the fridge, dishes in the sink, vacuum out, shoes by the door, freezer crammed to capacity. Just life. The contrast with the endless influencer stream of perfect organization and aspirational tidiness is stark and exhausting. TT puts it cleanly: the whole commercial machine is built on making you feel like you need something in order to be enough. The episode closes, as always, on the outro — and then a quick post-credits conversation about kids watching their parents scroll, and both women going "yeah, we were exactly that too, only we hissed at them and went back to the phone." Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Let's Chat!!Boo, Bitches! River is back from DragonCon and Alaska, but her voice is still recovering—so this week, she's opening the coven vault. This After Dark episode was previously available only to paying members.What is graveyard magick, and why do witches work with cemeteries? River explores ancestor work, spirit communication, the folklore of graveyard dirt, cemetery guardians, and spells tied to protection, transformation, and closure. She also tackles the rule that matters most: respect the dead and their resting places.Come for the spooky folklore. Stay for the supernatural bouncer.Support the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Original Air Date: 2/21/2022On this week's "Held Back" we're jumping to 1990 for "Skinned Alive" all the way from Season 4 of SlashU. This one was fun because it's a whole family of weirdo slashers doing the slashing. And they're driving around in a rad van! You know how much we love those. Enjoy this throwback and we'll see you with a new episode soon!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a world of gods...When danger strikes, will your gods reward your loyalty? Or will even they be impotent in the face of really poor human choices?CONTENT WARNINGS! Swearing, rude humour and spiders!YOUR PLAYERS! Your GM is Becs Watson. Helen Gaffney plays Ash, Sara Keep plays Maaz and Wasa plays Kia.THE GAME! Defy the Gods is a game by Chrys Sellers. You can buy it on itch.io.CONTACT US! Roll Plus Heart are on Facebook @RollPlusHeart, Mastodon @rollplusheart@dice.camp and Bluesky @rollplusheart.bsky.social. You can also email us at rollplusheart@gmail.com. More information about us, the show and the games we have played can be found at rollplusheart.co.uk.PATREON! We have a Patreon, featuring bonus audio content and regular merch subscriptions. Sign up from just £1 a month.KO-FI! If you'd rather just donate directly to the show, you can do so on a one-off or regular basis via Ko-Fi. Our merch is now also sold via Ko-Fi!SOCIAL MEDIA! Sara: @SaraKeepArt. Becs: @Starling_Dust. Wasa: WasabotteOTHER CONTENT! You can hear more from Jen and Sara on the actual play podcast Quest Fantastic. Jen hosts the film review podcast Jen and the Film Critic. Becs sells beautiful art via Ko-Fi and streams art, games and co-workings on Twitch.OUR MUSIC! Our theme music was composed by David Shaw (Instagram and Twitch @DSComposing and Facebook @composerdavidshaw). Music mixing and mastering was by Mark Anderson.All other music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound and Zapsplat.Show editing by Sara Keep and Jen Blundell.

Oolix is maybe the worst person to be alone I think. Quite literally it's squishy. Like what is Oolix supposed to do if it runs into any trouble??? This does not bode well, and I don't even know if I want to listen. Tell me what happens, Max Hedman.Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat

Time for another new SlashU! This week we covered a fresh release from 2026 it's "Deathwoods." It's the story of Scott and his friends trying to break him out of a post-breakup slump by going camping! But the woods are stalked by a killer in a really cool faceless mask. Also, they never really explain why Scott's girlfriend left him. Also there's a tangled web of ex-lovers and cheating in this friend group. Also they didn't bring nearly enough beer. Listen, tell a friend about the show, and enjoy!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Original Air Date: 4/5/2021On this week's "Held Back" we're repeating our course on 1976's "Drive-In Massacre." Since it's been a little while since we've covered one from the 70s on New SlashU, we think it's important to remember the stuff made in the 70s and 80s as well. Enjoy our repeat course about a slasher stalking the drive-in movie theater. If you don't know what one of those is, Google it. Tell a friend, rate the show, and enjoy!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .## LONG SUMMARYThis episode opens mid-life, mid-mess — which is pretty on-brand for CDQ. Queenie kicks things off with a life update that's equal parts exhausting and quietly heroic: her mom, Mumsy, has been transferred to Sunnyview Hospital for acute rehabilitation following a pelvic fracture complicated by pneumonia. And it has been, to put it mildly, a week.The opioid reaction alone is a whole story. Mumsy — described as a tiny little bird of a woman at 105 pounds — went full superhuman after being administered medication that did not agree with her, requiring five adults (including two men, Queenie is quick to note) to safely get her back into bed. She was subsequently assigned one-on-one monitoring with what Queenie cheerfully describes as "a robot looking thing" watching her around the clock. Thursday was, in Queenie's words, a completely lost day. But by the time they're recording, Mumsy is up with a walker, fully participating in therapy, and apparently chatty as ever — which, given the steroid-fueled word avalanche Queenie witnessed upon transfer, seems to be something of a baseline.The path forward is genuinely uncertain: subacute care may follow, options are limited while oxygen stays in the picture, and Queenie is doing what she can, which right now means taking it a day at a time and trying to get to her grandchildren when she can squeeze it in.From the heavy to the delightful: TT received a birthday gift while the two were celebrating on the Cape, and it's a game called Ganja Land — a cannabis-themed Candyland knockoff from the brand Lightly Toasted. TT, who has not yet played it, gives an enthusiastic rundown: eight character pieces (including Mary Jane Mermaid, The Royal Highness, and Weedly Wizard, all dressed appropriately for the occasion), a board full of hidden objects for timed scavenger hunts, trivia cards, fun facts, and a Spotify playlist to set the mood. The goal is to reach the Cannabis Castle and claim the cannabis crown — a bedazzled, marijuana-leaf-encrusted upgrade on the Burger King paper crown. Gameplay involves passing a joint to the left per Ganja Land tradition, and turn order follows the same direction. TT and Queenie immediately begin plotting to play virtually or in person come October.Then Queenie brings an article she'd flagged from Time magazine: what to do when someone gives you the silent treatment. The timing is personal. She'd reached out to a friend she'd lost touch with — wrote a note, explained a difficult five-year stretch, opened the door. Got nothing back. Not even, as she puts it, a fuck you. The article's framework is practical: distinguish between a healthy pause and a deliberate withdrawal, send one calm non-accusatory message, do not chase, do not retaliate with more silence, don't apologize just to get a reaction. When contact resumes: lead with curiosity, describe impact without assuming intent, and if the silence is a pattern rather than a moment, maybe look hard at whether the relationship is worth the real estate it's taking up in your head.Queenie's takeaway is quieter than the article's framework. Reading it gave her permission to let it go — to acknowledge she'd done her part, fulfilled what she calls "the social contract," and move on. TT points out, warmly but pointedly, that reaching out at all was the brave move. It was. And the non-response is its own answer.Which connects to the Fucket List addition: you do not have to respond to everything. Queenie originally pulled this out as a parenting tool — when kids are being fresh or challenging or saying things that don't actually require your engagement, you give yourself permission to just not. She's had to resurrect it lately, for adults. For family situations. For the nurses at the hospital asking her how Mumsy likes her nasal cannula. (Her answer: "What would you do if I wasn't here? Do that.") The relief of not needing to be the one with every answer — not needing to fix, explain, defend, or respond to everything lobbed at you — is, it turns out, just as applicable at 60-something as it was when her kids were teenagers.The episode closes on a more tender note. While the women were on the Cape, two significant losses happened: Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem. Both are acknowledged with the kind of genuine warmth you can't fake. For Steinem, Queenie has a specific recommendation: Netflix's Final Words — a pre-recorded interview filmed in the last couple of years, designed to air only after her death. Remote cameras, no crew, just Steinem knowing this would be her last on-camera words. Queenie watched it the night Steinem died. She calls it powerful. Forty minutes, not overlong, completely worth it.The conversation turns briefly political — because it has to. Women couldn't get credit in their own names until 1977. Physicians could discuss a woman's health directly with her husband, without involving her. Queenie and TT were already out of high school by then. It doesn't feel like ancient history to them. It feels like a warning. The episode wraps with an original song — "What Would Gloria Do?" — a full-throated tribute to Steinem that closes the show the way Steinem apparently closed most things: with glasses on, something sharp to say, and zero apologies.---## SHORT SUMMARYQueenie opens up about a harrowing week navigating her mother's transfer to a rehabilitation hospital — steroids, an opioid reaction, and five adults required to contain a 105-pound woman — while finding small things to hold onto, like TT's birthday gift of Ganja Land, a cannabis Candyland that they're already plotting to play. The episode gets real about the silent treatment, the art of not responding to everything, and the very different kinds of quiet that can settle over a relationship. It closes by honoring Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem — two women who showed up, in completely different ways, and never once made themselves small.---## EPISODE VIBEThis one has weight to it, but it wears it lightly. It's the kind of episode that starts in the thick of a hard week — hospital transfers, oxygen dependency, a mom who needed five people to keep her safe — and somehow finds its way to a birthday gift and a cannabis board game without it feeling like whiplash. There's exhaustion here, yes, but also a kind of hard-won clarity that comes through in everything from the silent treatment conversation to the Fucket List to the tribute to Gloria Steinem. Queenie is navigating a lot — caregiving, grief-adjacent uncertainty, a friendship that quietly closed a door — and TT is steady beside her, funny when it helps, serious when it matters. The emotional throughline is permission: permission to let go, to not respond, to stop being the one with all the answers. It's a midlife episode in the truest sense — not defeated, not falsely cheerful, just honest about where they are and who they're choosing to be. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Send us Fan MailCosmo and I find out why bears never became pets, with expert input from Alaska wildlife biologist Sean Farley.Check out the WSU Bear CenterLearn more about canine genes with the SmithsonianFind out about early human hunter-gatherers with Nat GeoThe American Museum of Natural History shows off its cave bearRead about bears' cool reproductive strategies See a baby bear with a Pennsylvania Game Commission biologistSound effects courtesy Zapsplat and Pixabay As always, submit burning questions at askdruniverse.wsu.edu.  Who knows where your questions will take us next.

That wasn't too bad of an encounter! Hopefully that's the worst of what this forest holds….what do you mean look at the title of the episode?? What do you mean it's not really a spoiler if it happens pretty early on?? Why is this description becoming even more meta than usual??? My brain is wracked, can I borrow yours Max Hedman?Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat

This week we covered "Big Baby" from 2025. It's the story of horror screenwriter Adam Lewis as he struggles to come up with a new script. When he has a dream about a killer dressed as a giant baby, Adam thinks he's hit slasher movie gold! But the line between idea and reality starts to get blurred as it seems like Adam's script is coming to life. Big Baby threatens to bring Adam's whole world crumbling down all in the name of a new slasher movie franchise. This one even has a couple podcasters in it! Listen, tell a friend, and give a thumbs up to support the show.Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .This one hits differently.The episode opens with Queenie still finding her footing after what can only be described as a vacation that got yanked out from under her. She and TT had been soaking up the final glorious days of Cape Cod — doing absolutely nothing of consequence, seaside, blissfully unbothered — when Queenie got the call. Mumsy had taken a fall on her way in from her program. Smashed pelvis. Fractured sacrum. Twenty-four hours in the ER. And Queenie was five-plus hours away in Truro, Massachusetts.Enter Lauren — Queenie's daughter, a registered nurse, who had literally just come off her own shift when the call came in and immediately redirected herself to St. Peter's Hospital to be with Gigi. Which, thank God, because what unfolded in that ER was a master class in how not to treat a ninety-three-year-old woman with multiple fractures and mild cognitive disorder. Gigi spent hours on a stretcher in a hallway. No fluids. No pain management. Lauren sat in the waiting room in her scrubs for three hours before she could even get back to her mother. A physician didn't lay eyes on her until the early hours of the morning — twelve hours in. They were also apparently going to send her home, and the only thing that stopped that was the fact that Gigi was having trouble oxygenating. Which is terrifying, and also accidentally the thing that saved her.Queenie is cautiously optimistic that Gigi will be transferred to Sunnyview, an acute rehab facility, with Lauren quietly working every connection she has to make it happen. The physician reviewer initially declined the transfer — and then apparently learned he was "dealing with a VIP" and reversed course. So. Lauren's getting things done.Meanwhile, TT is recording from the Cape on her last day — computer balanced on four puzzle boxes, microphone rattling every time she shifts on the bed, doing her absolute best. She's not ready to leave. Nobody ever is. Honey spotted a great white shark in the bay with his binoculars (there had already been a sighting from a boat the day before, so he knew what he was looking at). A seal was hanging out ten feet off the beach. TT's sister Mare found two rocks shaped like sharks and everyone is coming home with a collection of found treasures. TT found a nose. An actual rock nose. They both save boxes — Apple boxes are singled out as particularly premium — and they are completely unapologetic about this.There is a brief and important moment of grief for the inflatable island, a large and unwieldy float that had served them well but had been slowly losing air all week despite a duct-tape patch job that was, by their own admission, not exactly precision work. With the combined assistance of TT's three sons and two daughters-in-law, the island was retired with dignity. They're reconfiguring for something more age-appropriate going forward. A parasol was suggested.The episode's "What Have You Consumed Today" check-in: Queenie is smoking Mendo Purps dog walkers from Hepworth — tiny little things, perfect for microdosing, very cute. TT scored her gummies, which have apparently been rebranded from "Hummies" to "Tree Works." TT took half of one five-milligram. They are both doing what they need to do to stay on an even keel.The "Wait, What?" segment this week is a roundup of things people only discovered about their partners after moving in together. One sock removed hours before bed, the other stays on — nobody knows why. Three hundred used contact lenses tossed behind the headboard instead of the trash. Popcorn eaten with bites of lettuce, apparently a whole-family tradition. Coffee cups left a quarter full in random locations throughout the home. Cabinets never quite closed, jar lids never quite tightened — this one lands especially hard given that Queenie points out they paid serious money for self-closing cabinets and drawers that are somehow being actively defeated. No consistent spot for keys or wallet, leading to morning chaos. Overfilling plates, eating half, leaving the rest by the sink. TT's real grievance surfaces: leaving two chips in a bag, two kernels in the popcorn, one sad schmear of cream cheese. Why. TT poses the actual important question here: how many people confronted these behaviors, and how many have just been quietly simmering for forty years? Queenie, speaking from experience, gives the simmering option roughly forty-odd years before it erupts — probably over something completely unrelated.TT's Choice, the segment where TT picks a number between one and seventy-five, lands on twenty-five: "What if you had to live your mother's exact life? What's the first thing you'd change?" TT goes straight to money — her family lived in poverty, and she'd change that first, with the hope it might have kept her grandfather from becoming violent toward her grandmother. Queenie's mind goes immediately to her own grandfather, who suffered what was then called a "nervous breakdown," was institutionalized for years, declared legally incompetent, and received electroshock therapy — which Queenie's mother witnessed firsthand during her nursing school psych rotation. Both women find themselves trying to undo pain for their mothers, trying to remove the source of trauma. Then they catch themselves: would changing those things mean their mothers — or they themselves — would be the same people? Probably not. It's a real question with no clean answer, and they sit in it for a moment.From there, the conversation drifts into what they would change about their own lives. Queenie says she'd want more awareness — more information, more sense of what was possible. She never considered going away to school, never even thought about working a summer on the Cape, not because she said no but because the option simply never materialized in her mind. It wasn't available to her as a concept. They talk about the generation-wide narrowing of possibility for women — a classmate who was explicitly told her parents wouldn't fund architecture school because she had brothers. Someone had to be the one to get educated. It wasn't going to be her. Queenie and TT both landed in human services almost by a kind of collegial suggestion — TT picked it, and Queenie thought: service to humans, helping people, I can do that. And she could.Queenie reflects on nursing — something she considered but rejected because she didn't trust her own instincts, feared paralysis by analysis, couldn't imagine the decisiveness it requires. She has enormous respect for nurses for exactly that reason. Which brings it back to Lauren, and to TT's sister Mary, and to what nurses actually do every single day — the compassion, the common sense, the ability to think outside the box under pressure, the advocacy. The Fucket List entry for the week is exactly that: fuck it to professionals who treat vulnerable people without dignity. Queenie's quiet fury about Gigi's twelve hours in a hallway, alone, unexamined, in pain — it comes through clearly. And her equally quiet point about what happens to people who don't have a Lauren in their corner, who don't have someone who knows what questions to ask and won't back down — that one lands hard.The episode closes with TT packing up in Truro, stopping in Albany to see her sister before the long drive home, sand in her shoes, rocks in her bags, already mourning the version of herself that got to live here for a while. The outro poem/song is beautiful — salt still drying on skin, the bay deciding your schedule, going sane by surrendering to it. "I'm leaving softer than I came and heavier than I."Same, TT. Same. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Jacob comes to the Jabbok River where he is forced to deal with his inner demons (or an external God) in one the most bizarre wrestling matches ever! Based on Genesis 32:3-32. Show notes have been posted at retellingthebible.wordpress.com. Media in this Episode The following Creative Commons music was used for this media project: “AhDah” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Battlefield 6 Streaming Music Vol. 37 by Sacha Ende Battlefield 6 Streaming Music Vol. 38 by Sacha Ende http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sound Effects by Zapsplat.com Support Retelling the Bible If you would like to support the work that I do creating these stories, go to patreon.com/retellingthebible and choose a level of support! Contact me on Social Media! Reddit Bluesky Facebook  

This is a world of gods...When danger strikes, will your gods reward your loyalty? Or will even they be impotent in the face of really poor human choices?CONTENT WARNINGS! Swearing, rude humour and spiders!YOUR PLAYERS! Your GM is Becs Watson. Helen Gaffney plays Ash, Sara Keep plays Maaz and Wasa plays Kia.THE GAME! Defy the Gods is a game by Chrys Sellers. You can buy it on itch.io.CONTACT US! Roll Plus Heart are on Facebook @RollPlusHeart, Mastodon @rollplusheart@dice.camp and Bluesky @rollplusheart.bsky.social. You can also email us at rollplusheart@gmail.com. More information about us, the show and the games we have played can be found at rollplusheart.co.uk.PATREON! We have a Patreon, featuring bonus audio content and regular merch subscriptions. Sign up from just £1 a month.KO-FI! If you'd rather just donate directly to the show, you can do so on a one-off or regular basis via Ko-Fi. Our merch is now also sold via Ko-Fi!SOCIAL MEDIA! Sara: @SaraKeepArt. Becs: @Starling_Dust. Wasa: WasabotteOTHER CONTENT! You can hear more from Jen and Sara on the actual play podcast Quest Fantastic. Jen hosts the film review podcast Jen and the Film Critic. Becs sells beautiful art via Ko-Fi and streams art, games and co-workings on Twitch.OUR MUSIC! Our theme music was composed by David Shaw (Instagram and Twitch @DSComposing and Facebook @composerdavidshaw). Music mixing and mastering was by Mark Anderson.All other music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound and Zapsplat.Show editing by Sara Keep and Jen Blundell.

We've made it to Season 13 of SlashU. As we begin our 6th year of the podcast we jumped back to 1990 to take a look at "Blood Games." This one did not follow the traditional slasher formula. It's more like "A League of Their Own" meets "Deliverance" or "Rambo." When a team of female baseball players beats a team of redneck sore losers, they end up on the run through the forest fighting for their lives. Guys, it was just a baseball game! Enjoy the show and share it with a friend!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .Queenie and TT are recording from Cape Cod Bay — or as they're lobbying to rename it, "Queenie and TT's Water" — and the vibe is pure decompression energy. The vacation is going swimmingly, except for the part where it literally isn't: the inflatable boat has sprung a leak. Did that stop them from staying out on the water for a couple of hours? Absolutely not. They rode that increasingly "flaccid" vessel with full commitment, carefully redistributing their weight to avoid inadvertently launching each other off an intact chamber. The plan now involves duct tape and optimism, pending a trip to a marine supply shop in Provincetown. Classic.The Cape has been delivering exactly what was needed — perfect low-seventies weather, healing sun, soul-cleansing waves — because Queenie has been running on fumes. Caregiving for her mum has been in overdrive, and the universe briefly threatened to interrupt the vacation when Mum attempted to cancel her own transportation to her day program because her grandson Lucas had come for dinner and she simply decided she was staying home, thank you very much. It was sorted. Mum is ninety-three today — happy birthday — and is officially the longest-living sibling, which Queenie notes is probably not the outcome anyone predicted, least of all Queenie herself, who admits she privately thought "no way" when her mother announced she was financially planning to live to a hundred. Meanwhile, TT celebrated her own birthday this week, complete with karaoke and all three sons and their partners. A good week for birthdays.Entertainment highlight of the trip: drag comedy legend Dina Martina, who summers in Provincetown and is, apparently, genuinely impossible to describe. Multimedia. Bizarre. Absolutely hysterical. Highly recommended if she rolls through your town. They also did a lot of nothing, which they both agree is exactly the point.On the cannabis beat: Queenie flagged an emerging conversation about senior living communities and the growing number of residents who are using cannabis — for medical reasons, for recreational ones, or simply because they like it and they're adults and that's allowed. The issue? Nobody's actually addressing it proactively. No designated consumption spaces, no updated policies, no real acknowledgment that people over seventy still have preferences about their own bodies. Queenie draws the parallel to the equally-never-discussed topic of sexuality in assisted living — something she navigated firsthand as a former manager, including one memorable theater situation and a delicate family conversation about a resident named Daisy. The throughline: society has a deeply weird relationship with older adults' self-determination, whether the subject is cannabis, sex, medication compliance, or simply choosing to stay in your own home. TT's mum gets a quiet nod here — still home, still making her own calls, still showing up to her day program without pants on certain occasions (technically covered where a bathing suit would cover, so: fine).The emotional centerpiece of the episode is a Good Housekeeping article Queenie brings to the table: "Fewer People Are Going to Become Grandparents and No One Has Acknowledged Their Grief." It's a real thing, it turns out. More and more adult children of boomers are choosing to be child-free, and the parents who had quietly, completely assumed grandchildren were part of their future are sitting with a loss that doesn't have a name, a ceremony, or a support group. TT speaks to this directly and with real vulnerability — she's felt selfish for feeling it, she's felt isolated because most of her friends already have grandkids, and she hadn't even fully recognized the feeling as grief until this moment. Queenie gently but firmly separates the grief from the blame: two truths can coexist. Adult children have full authority over their reproductive choices. Parents are allowed to mourn an imagined future. Grief is not the same as disappointment, and disappointment points blame in a way that grief doesn't have to. The conversation lands somewhere genuinely useful: TT decides her Fuck It List addition is releasing the expectation of grandchildren — not dismissing the feeling, but grieving it properly and letting it go. Queenie reframes TT's sons' choices as evidence of exactly the kind of free-thinking, non-conformist parenting TT and Rich actually did. It's a good moment.TT's Choice goes in a delightful direction: one meal for the rest of your life, taste only, no nutritional overthinking allowed. Queenie spirals beautifully through apple crisp with fresh whipped cream, a French butterbread situation that is mostly just butter, Jean Boudini's Veal Piccata, and a genuinely excellent cheeseburger before landing, definitively, on Mallon's sticky buns from the Jersey Shore — caramel poured over, frosting on top, nuts sprinkled, dripping, warm, sold out by mid-morning. AAA-plus rating. TT, for the record, would eat a warm cinnamon bun with frosting. Every day.Post-outro bonus: Queenie admits she animated a photo of a fish that TT's husband and son Thomas caught on a fishing trip. The fish had, in her words, a great face. She made it look directly at the viewer and say "Help me." Thomas, who had already been quietly hoping the fish would escape, found this deeply sad and told her it was "very clever, but it just makes me sad." Queenie apologized. The fish did not survive either way.---## SHORT SUMMARYQueenie and TT are broadcasting from a slightly-deflated inflatable boat situation on Cape Cod Bay, navigating caregiving updates, a birthday for TT, and a trip to see drag comedy legend Dina Martina. They dig into cannabis use in senior living communities, the unspoken grief of boomer parents whose adult children are choosing not to have kids, and Queenie's definitive answer to the one-meal-for-life question: Mallon's sticky buns from the Jersey Shore. Also, someone animated a fish to say "Help me," and feelings were hurt.---## TOP 5 PULL QUOTES**TT:** "I have felt selfish, I have felt sadness, I have felt very alone in it — because most of my friends have grandchildren. There is a sense of loss, and I'm so glad it's being talked about."**Queenie:** "People are mourning an imagined future, and that makes it a very difficult loss to explain — and to validate."**Queenie:** "Describe it as grief rather than disappointment. Disappointment points blame. Grief identifies an emotion that can be processed."**TT:** "Hearing this spoken aloud — it's okay. That this is a real thing. And not even knowing deep down that that's what was happening."**Queenie:** "Cannabis in senior living is like sex in senior living — we're not going to talk about it, so if we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist."---## EPISODE VIBEThis one moves like a good beach afternoon — unhurried, a little sun-dazed, funnier than it has any right to be, and then suddenly kind of profound. It opens in full vacation mode: leaky boats, duct tape, Dina Martina, and a fishing photo that made someone's son feel existential grief about a fish. But underneath the easy laughter is a real current of weight — caregiving fatigue, aging parents, the strange loneliness of grieving a future that was never promised to you in the first place. TT's honesty about the grandchildren question lands with real force precisely because the episode earns it slowly. By the time she names it as something she can finally put on the Fuck It List, it feels less like resignation and more like release. Equal parts wry and tender, with a sticky bun chaser. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Let's Chat!!No new episode? No problem. While we're off surviving DragonCon, enjoy this After Dark replay all about alcohol magick. We're talking correspondences for vodka, rum, tequila, wine, beer, whiskey, gin, brandy, and mead—plus libations, divination with drinks, and how to respectfully share your spirits with deities, ancestors, and the fae.Support the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Original Air Date: 3/11/2024On this week's throwback episode we're revisiting a favorite here at SlashU. It's a unique documentary-style slasher movie from 2006 called "Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon." We loved it because it was a fresh take on the slasher genre. A documentary crew follows around an aspiring slasher by the name of Leslie Vernon while he tries to make a name for himself. But there's a twist. There's always a twist. This one is great and we're looking forward to a rumored sequel. Listen, tell your friends, and rate the show!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hoy hablamos con Rodrigo Martínez también conocido como Mingarra. Una persona difícil de definir pero con unavoz propia dentro del vino. No heredó una viña. Heredó unahistoria familiar. Una historia que no había salido de su pueblohasta ahora. Defensor de lo viejo, las viñas y los libros. Hoy ayuda a bodegas a contar mejor sus vinos. A encontrar esa historia que nadie puede copiar. Esa historia por la que siempre te recordarán.Papel y lápiz porque en esta conversación Rodrigo nos cuenta muchas cosas que no se han escrito en ningún libro.Me despido con esta frase de Horacio:Abre el vino guardado y no preguntes demasiado por el mañana.Bruno Stump: @vinopod_podcast)vinopod@gmail.com⁠www.youtube.com/@vinopod_podcast⁠Diseño gráfico y logo: Artista Léa Chauré. ⁠@leachaure_is_painting⁠Música de inicio “Funkalicious” y efectos de sonido especiales: ⁠www.Zapsplat.com⁠Música final “Chappy” Autor: Gabo Morfín. ⁠@gabbage.patch⁠Contacto Rodrigo rodrigo.mingarra@gmail.com

I am so sorry Gem. I can't even begin to imagine how you are feeling. How did your mother even get involved??? It just doesn't make sense to me. I hope we can get to the bottom of this mystery soon. Very soon. Let's hope our party can keep up Gem's sprits. I would hate to see what would happen otherwise.Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat

The White Ship really hits the fan with this curious slice of nautical disaster!  Medieval Kings past, present and future come together for the worst of Cruise Package Holidays!   Will your sea legs hold? Will your all inclusive continental breakfast repeat? Will the Butcher get paid yo?! All these questions are definitely questions.  The passenger list of thanks are as follows. ZapSplat for Music & SFX Extra wonderful Music by  Scott Buckley and  Danny Bradley (they both get a lifeboat berth) Come follow on our socials - Insta, Facebook and YouTube - The Silly History Boys Show The Silly Walk of York is available to be in your pocket and earphones for that day when you finally get yourself to the City of York.  

Original Air Date: 10/14/2024On another "Held Back" we're taking you back to Season 9 of SlashU, episode 152 where we covered "Creep Van" from 2012. It's a cautionary tale about how you should be really careful if you ever buy a van on Craigslist or some other roadside 'for sale' sign. Take a walk down memory lane with us and enjoy this blast from the past. We'll be back with new episodes soon.Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .Queenie and TT are recording this week's episode from the actual Cape Cod shoreline — specifically Days Cottages in North Truro, Massachusetts, sitting across from each other with water views and, apparently, a front-row seat to a squid situation nobody saw coming. It's a vacation episode, which means the conversation is looser, warmer, and occasionally derailed by birds doing cute things out the window. The nature content is genuinely impressive. The day before recording, Queenie's granddaughters stumbled onto what can only be described as a squid bonanza — hundreds of them washed up on the beach, apparently so abundant that the girls collected enough to sell to a local fishing vessel, the CJ out of Provincetown, and made actual money. Meanwhile, TT and crew joined a ranger-led walk on the tidal flats near the site of the Pilgrims' first landing on North American soil — a detail that lands with some weight once you realize you're standing on it. The ranger produced a live horseshoe crab for the group, which prompted a surprisingly earnest digression: horseshoe crabs have been around for roughly 450 million years (they landed on "50 million" in the moment, but the vibe was correct), their blue blood is harvested for medical use, and females of reproductive age are off-limits for harvesting out of conservation concern. The one they found was young — "only a million or two years old," Queenie noted, with complete sincerity. A live squid about 18 inches long was also spotted squiding through shallow water before the ranger nudged it back out to sea. TT's son mentioned that squid are "candy to stripers," which apparently is common fishing knowledge that neither host had previously retained. The moon snail also got its moment: TT's son found a clamshell with a perfect tiny hole drilled through it, and the ranger explained that moon snails have a specialized body part that functions like a literal drill. They bore into other shells and suck out the contents. Nature, as TT observed, is amazing. Queenie agreed, and the two briefly marveled at how everything in the natural world fits together — hand and glove — before noting that humans have spent a great deal of energy segmenting and ranking that system, mostly to put themselves at the top of it. "We are not the top of the food chain," Queenie said, with the confidence of someone who has spent the week watching horseshoe crabs and moon snails conduct their business unbothered. TT recalled an Onion headline about a dolphin developing opposable thumbs, with the tagline "fuck says humanity," and that was basically that. The first landing marker also generated some reflection. There's a concrete engraving on the far side of the monument acknowledging the Wampanoag people — who thrived in the area long before Europeans arrived and were subsequently, as Queenie put it plainly, "summarily exterminated or shoved aside." TT noted the inscription called for remembrance so history isn't repeated. Both hosts appreciated the acknowledgment, even while noting that as a culture, "we don't acknowledge shit." The conversation extended to the harshness of the conditions that greeted those early arrivals — winter winds in Truro that routinely hit 50 miles an hour, bad enough that you can't open a car door. TT's sister is looking at a condo in the area, and a year-round resident supplied that cheerful detail during due diligence. Cannabis check-in: TT is running a performance gummy — caffeinated, with yerba mate, electrolytes, guarana, THC-V (filed under "vigor"), and CBG, full spectrum, fast-acting, solventless. It's designed for power, stamina, and endurance. The first time she took it, she napped. She is optimistic this will not happen again today, as there is a sailboat — the Envy the Bay — to launch. Queenie is on Off Hours Orange Aid, an awakening energy sour gummy, nano-enhanced, 10:2 THC to THC-V ratio, made in Rochester, New York. The tin is orange. She ate a whole one instead of the recommended half. They are both theoretically vimmed and vigored and ready to get that boat in the water. Wait, What? this week delivered "calf hair harassment" — a real and apparently escalating workplace issue in Japan, where the introduction of a climate-adaptive dress code (shorts for office workers, due to soaring heat) has led some women to formally object to the sight of men's leg hair, which they've characterized as visual harassment. A survey by a men's beauty salon found 53.5% of female respondents opposed men wearing shorts at work. The 2020 Goo web portal survey (yes, that's the name) ranked men's summer habits women disliked most, with visible nipples through shirts topping the list, followed by sweat stains, strong cologne, sandals with socks, prominent bellies, tank tops, and, of course, calf hair. The result: more Japanese men are pursuing laser hair removal not for personal preference but out of workplace propriety. Queenie and TT's verdict was pretty unified: calling leg hair harassment minimizes actual harassment, it's intolerant, and also, TT comes from an Italian family, so the whole premise was somewhat unworkable from the jump. TT's former boss did once institute a "no man toes" rule at the office — open-toed sandals for men were banned — but that turned out to be aimed at one specific attorney with sandals and hairy toes, which is a slightly different situation. The segment ended with a genuine question for listeners: would you find calf hair harassing in the workplace? The hosts have clearly already decided. TT's Choice landed on #14: one perfect high a week, or a mild pleasant buzz every day. TT initially went with the daily mild buzz, reasoning it would be nice to be mellowed out consistently. Then she reconsidered. The high hard one was not adequately accounted for in her initial answer. She may have been "a little too hasty." No final ruling was issued. The Fuck It List entry this week came from TT: she is officially adding "being responsible for everyone's happiness" back onto the list, having caught herself defaulting to full caretaker mode while hosting family at the cottage — making sure everyone was fed, happy, having fun, not thirsty. She knows better. She has said this on the podcast. She did it anyway. Queenie's take was compassionate and correct: TT has layered imprints on this place — as a child here with her own parents, as a mother bringing her kids here for years — and those grooves run deep. It doesn't mean she has to stay in them. The note that resonated: when we scramble to make everyone happy, we might actually be putting quiet pressure on them to perform happiness back at us. It's a fuck it directed inward. Her grown-ass men are fine. She knows this. Fuck it. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Let's Chat!!What happens when you stare into a mirror long enough and ask it to spill your business?This week on C3: Crystals, Cauldrons, & Cocktails, River is diving into the strange, ancient, occasionally creepy world of reflection divination and scrying.We're traveling from an ancient Greek mirror oracle to John Dee's mysterious obsidian mirror, digging into old Halloween rituals for spotting your future spouse, exploring the folklore behind Bloody Mary, and discovering why humans have apparently spent thousands of years staring into shiny objects and demanding answers.We'll talk mirror scrying, water scrying, obsidian, intuition, the subconscious, spiritual interpretations, and what may actually be happening when faces and shapes seem to shift in low light.Plus, there's a possibly haunted thrift-store mirror, practical scrying techniques, divination for the low-spoon witch, the Scry & Dry cocktail, and several reminders that your mirror does NOT get to be the boss of you.Whether you believe you're receiving messages from Spirit, tapping into your intuition, giving your subconscious five uninterrupted minutes to finally get a word in, or some combination of the above, grab something reflective.We're staring into the shiny void.And hopefully nothing stares back.Just Be True ~ A Soul-Led PodcastJust Be True is a podcast about spiritual awakening, self-discovery, and real...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!!You open a witchcraft book and apparently you're supposed to own an engraved athame, an elaborate chalice, a crystal wand, seventeen specialized bowls and an altar that looks like the magical section of Pottery Barn.Meanwhile, you're standing in the kitchen holding a butter knife and thinking, “Pointy enough.”Welcome to Cauldrons of Chaos.This week, River is talking about the reality of witchy tools: what we're supposedly meant to use versus what actually ends up becoming part of our practice.We're talking athame vs. butter knife, chalice vs. chipped coffee mug, crystal wand vs. random pen, and all those ordinary objects that somehow become deeply personal magical tools along the way.Because beautiful witchy tools are wonderful—but they aren't the admission price for witchcraft.We'll talk about intention, building relationships with your tools, the trap of waiting until you have the “right” supplies to begin, and why the weird little object you've been using for years may mean more to your practice than anything you could order online.Plus, your Chaos Assignment: officially promote one completely ordinary object to Sacred Witchy Tool status and give it an unnecessarily dramatic title.Grab your Sacred Spoon of Caffeinated Intentions.We've got magick to do.Support the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Gods I love when things are resolved peacefully. I mean fighting and violence can be gratifying, but there's just something about finding out a non-violent solution to a problem that really tugs at my heart strings. Also Gem and Kayrn are going to have to do something pretty spectacular to dethrone Oolix as my favorite now. Right, Max Hedman?Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat.

Original air date: 5/1/2023We've got another "Held Back" for you this week where we're re-taking our class on "Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet" from 2009. When the local teens gather to celebrate the anniversary of the death of a local axe murderer, they come to find out it might not be such a legend after all. We'll be back soon with new episodes.Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .This one opens the way all the best CDQ episodes do: mid-ramble, mid-weather report, mid-Cape Cod. TT is live from the cottage and the vibes are immaculate. Queenie is back home and very aware that she's exactly one week away from showing up at four twenty-two because, yes, someone absolutely got busted trying to beat Queenie there last year with a little gifty bag of homemade granola. The code goes out at three-thirty and not a minute before. Some things are sacred. Before we even get to cannabis, we get a genuinely fascinating detour into Cape Cod maritime history. TT and her husband attended a live reenactment at what she's pretty sure was Race Point Beach, where costumed rescuers demonstrated the nineteenth-century breeches buoy system — a cannon-fired rope, a mast, a pair of sailor pants fashioned into a sling, and a zip line over freezing open water. They dragged the whole contraption three miles down the beach in a nor'easter, had to redo it twice because waves kept shifting the foundering boat, and ultimately saved over a hundred thousand lives with what was essentially improvised physics and a lot of guts. TT is clearly still moved by this. Queenie is clearly delighted. There's talk of shellfish farm tours, a pending eclipse wave situation, and the Big Dipper showing up unexpectedly in the living room window at two in the morning. Cape Cod is apparently doing a lot right now. The consumption check-in is a fond one. Queenie is holding a copper tin of Purple Voodoo from Ruby Farms — embossed label, painted-on branding, multiple colors, a little bit of Metallica energy. She and TT take a respectful moment to appreciate good packaging. TT, meanwhile, has been slowly ascending all afternoon on cannabis honey over at her sister's place, spread thick on a Portuguese muffin with almond butter. She thought she was fine. She was not fine. Her sister also thought she was fine. Also not fine. They figured it out around minute twenty of the jigsaw puzzle, which is honestly the ideal setting for that particular realization. There's a houseful of small humans involved this week — seven kids under five between the grand-nieces and nephews and the neighbor kids — and TT is fully leaning into her role as the unbothered elder at the gathering. Not her circus. Then a four-year-old with a plastic Polaroid camera asked her cousin if she could take a picture of his penis, and he, ever obliging, immediately dropped his shorts. The mothers deployed gentle parenting at full speed. The camera was confiscated. Reparations were required in the form of a spoken acknowledgment that we do not photograph people's privates. The acknowledgment was not immediately forthcoming. The acknowledgment eventually came, through repetition. TT watched all of this while gently lifted on a cannabis cocktail and describes it as the highlight of her evening. You believe her completely. The Wait Wait What segment this week covers two TikTok wellness trends that deserve scrutiny. First: shoving a raw clove of garlic up your nose to clear congestion. There are apparently viral videos of mucus flowing freely out of someone's nostril after removal, which sounds less like a cure and more like a crime scene. The garlic isn't clearing your sinuses — it's just irritating your delicate mucous membranes into a full evacuation. Queenie has childhood button-up-the-nose trauma that makes her a deeply unreliable advocate for nasal foreign objects. TT's proposal of a garlic tampon — nose edition, string included, designed for retrievability — is floated with complete sincerity and the segment ends with a jingle that will haunt you. Second trend: sticking your tongue out like a lizard for forty seconds to normalize cortisol. An Egyptian neurologist apparently had results. The girls are skeptical of the cortisol claim but admit that any forty-second intentional pause is probably grounding regardless of what your tongue is doing. They also note that a garlic clove hanging from your nose and your tongue fully extended will absolutely guarantee you personal space in any meeting, Zoom or otherwise. Silver lining. TT's Choice lands on number forty-seven: if CDQ became a TV show, who plays who? TT nominates Leanne Morgan for Queenie. Queenie counters with Jamie Lee Curtis for TT — "like me, with boobs." Kristen Johnston and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are also in the mix. This leads directly into a mutual appreciation of Seth Meyers's Day Drinking series, which Queenie has apparently discovered and is evangelical about. He cannot handle his liquor. It is, by her account, extremely funny. The Lizzo episode sounds unhinged. TT is intrigued. The Fuck It this week is the quiet, real kind. Queenie ran into someone she'd lost touch with — a person she used to spend a lot of time with — and instead of going into a full internal shame spiral, instead of skulking away, instead of falling over herself with explanation and apology and preemptive guilt, she just... was happy to see her. They met each other where they were. That was it. TT immediately clocks how significant this is. Old Queenie would have been sweating through the whole encounter, narrating every possible way she'd failed this person. This Queenie just showed up, present, no story. The fuck it here isn't dramatic — it's the fuck it to the chatter in your own head. To the little internal voice that's always ready with a verdict before you've even said hello. They credit the weekly ritual of naming things, talking it out, doing the work. If you name it, you can tame it. Queenie also notes, with no small amount of practical wisdom, that she came away from the encounter not having gotten the woman's updated phone number. Growth has its limits. They sign off warm — next episode they'll be recording together from the Cape, which has been the countdown since minute one. The week ahead includes a New Orleans-style band tonight, more puzzle progress on the record store jigsaw, and whatever the deep sea disco Provincetown parade ends up delivering in terms of mermaid costuming. The expectations are high. The bar is a lot of sequins and a fish tail. It will probably be met. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Let's Chat!!This week on C3: Crystals, Cauldrons & Cocktails, River is heading into the weeds—literally—to investigate one of witchcraft's most recognizable and surprisingly complicated figures: the Green Man.You know him. The mysterious leafy face carved into medieval churches, lurking in garden centers, and staring back from enough witchy décor to make you wonder exactly when the forest got a spokesperson.But who—or what—is the Green Man?We're digging into the strange history behind those leafy faces, why they appear on medieval churches and cathedrals, how the Green Man became associated with nature, renewal and the turning seasons, and why modern witches have enthusiastically adopted him as everyone's favorite mysterious forest dude.Then we're getting practical with Green Man magick: renewal charms, simple everyday practices, working with growth and opportunity, connecting with the green world when you don't actually have a forest handy, and the part nobody puts on the cottagecore Pinterest board—decay, endings, boundaries and knowing when something needs to be composted.There will also be murdered houseplants, an opportunistic squirrel, questionable gardening decisions, something called a leaf burrito of witchcraft, and several deeply unnecessary Green Man nicknames.And because this is C3, we're mixing The Forest Face, a botanical cocktail for anyone who likes their nature spirituality served over ice.So grab your drink, find something green, and come meet the ancient-looking leafy bastard who's been photobombing history for centuries.

Original Air Date: 8/7/2023As we wrap up another year of Shark Week here at SlashU we wanted to bring you another blast from the past. This one is another great departure from our usual slasher movie formula. We bring you our episode on "Doll Shark" from 2022. This one features a doll that's possessed by the spirit of an evil shark. Yes, it's true, sharks can be good or evil and this one is evil. Enjoy this throwback episode and tell a friend.Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time to go see some orcs! This is absolutely going to be a hard and bloody battle, but I guess depending on the amount of orcs it shouldn't be too bad. Just make sure Oolix stays in the back. I don't want a single gel on that ooze's head to be damaged. Too precious for this world. Right, Max Hedman?Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat.

This week we bring you another installment of our annual Shark Week departure from the typical cheesy, campy, sometimes forgotten slasher movies. This one is from 2014 and it's a straight-up short film stretched with tons of B-roll to make it long enough. It's "90210 Shark Attack" from 2014. It's the story of a high school class (really?) that's on a field trip. They're staying at a place in Beverly Hills but they plan to spend some time by the ocean studying sharks. However, a haunted shark tooth that one of the students has somehow gives her powers and the rest of the class has to deal with the consequences. That's the most I can dress this up to make it sound interesting. Listen, enjoy, tell a friend about the show!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .The older we get, the less we're willing to audition for people who were never going to clap anyway. Save this for the next time you catch yourself over-explaining, people-pleasing, or trying to win someone over. Here's the real shift:Not caring less about people, caring more about your energySaving your best self for the people who actually matterIf someone doesn't like you, believe them and move on. That's not cold. That's clarity. What are you still giving too much energy to? Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Let's Chat!!Not everyone gets a key, witches.This week, we're digging into Lock & Key Magick—the witchcraft of protection, boundaries, access, opportunity, and knowing when you're standing in front of the wrong fucking door.We're looking at the surprisingly weird history of keys, from Viking Age graves and divine gatekeepers to church keys used in folk healing and love magick. Then we're bringing it into modern witchcraft with protection keys, boundary charms, locking-away spells, goal magick, and a Path-Opening Key Spell for those moments when you desperately need something in your life to MOVE.Because sometimes you need to lock the Forces of Fuckery outside.And sometimes?You need to stop aggressively jingling a key at a brick wall.Grab your Skeleton Key cocktail and join River for keys, chaos, questionable folklore, practical spellwork, and one very important reminder:Not everyone gets access to you.Just Be True ~ A Soul-Led PodcastJust Be True is a podcast about spiritual awakening, self-discovery, and real...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Original Air Date: 9/12/2022It's Shark Week here at SlashU. It's that wonderful time of year where we step away from covering classic slasher movies and bring you a couple offerings of cheesy, campy, sometimes forgotten shark movies. This one is a blast from the past, all the way back to Season 5 of SlashU and the very first Shark Week themed podcast episode we did. It's "Ouija Shark" from 2020. A group of women find a haunted Ouija board washed up on shore and decide to use it. It conjures a ghostly shark that beings to hunt them all down. Thanks for re-taking our class with us!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's Chat!!Boo, Bitches! 'In this mini episode, we're hitting the road, the runway, and that one deeply haunted rest stop bathroom. This one's for my beautiful disasters and little chaos gremlins whose altar is a carry-on, whose offerings are gas station snacks, and whose hotel rooms definitely need warding. We'll talk roadside offerings (yes, the spirits will accept Doritos), rest stop cleansing rituals, airport sigils, hotel room protection using nothing but towels and a Gideon Bible, and a suitcase spell so your luggage doesn't go on its own spiritual journey to Denver. Magick doesn't stop just because you're in motion—if anything, travel is one big, chaotic ritual. Buckle up and embrace the chaos.Support the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Gods don't you just love when you win?? I know our heroes are feeling pretty damn proud of themselves right now. And they should! Taking down an entire operation of bandits is no small feat! Well maybe for some folks like our previous protagonists…but regardless! I'm proud of them, and I feel like they should be celebrated! Crack open some bottles and start playing a tune, Max Hedman!Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat.

It's Shark Week here at SlashU. That magical time of year where we stray away from traditional "slasher" movies and bring you a couple cheesy, campy Shark movies. Our first installment this year is "Camp Blood: Clown Shark" from 2024. It's an installment in the extensive "Camp Blood" series of movies. But don't worry, you don't have to know what's going on in order to watch this one, because you still won't know what's going on. And we're excited to share it with you! Listen, rate the show, and tell a friend.Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RECORDED SOMETIME IN 2025. WHO KNOWS WHAT WE SAID IN THIS ONE. Did you know that misinterpretations of Christianity aren't limited to politicians? This episode looks at one of the biggest, hottest takes on the Bible, Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Rebellion/Uprising/Revolution in mid-1800s China, which in turn changed the lives of women all over the nation. Kind of. Maybe. A bit.  Women of War is written and recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and any First Nations listeners today. Sovereignty was never ceded.  This episode contains mentions of gendered violence, rape, mutilation, violence against children, crimes against humanity, religious trauma and perversion, and starvation. It may not be suitable for all listeners. Statements made within this podcast are ours alone and do not reflect the views of our employers. For more information on the podcast, go to womenofwarpod.com or follow us on Facebook and Instagram @womenofwarpod for updates, sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Sign up to our newsletter at womenofwarpod.com/subscribe to get notified of the newest episodes (when we have the time to make them) plus all the cool things we couldn't fit into the episode. Intro and Outro Music: Frosty Forest by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com; sound effects by ZapSplat.

Original Air Date: 6/20/2022This week on "Held Back" we're bringing you Mrs. Robinson meets Slasher movie with "They're Playing with Fire" from 1984. I'm not sure there's any need for further explanation other than....it's Mrs. Robinson meets a Slasher movie. Enjoy this throwback and share it with a friend!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .Season five, and the queens are still at it. Queenie kicks things off solo while TT is dialing in from what sounds like an actual dream — lovely North Truro, Massachusetts, right on the water. Queenie is clearly dying to be there. The episode opens on something genuinely heady: a Vice article Queenie read about the "morbidity gap" — the growing distance between how long we live and how long we live *well*. Global life expectancy has climbed to nearly 74 years. Healthy life expectancy? About 63. For Americans, that gap has stretched to roughly 14 years — meaning a lot of people are alive on paper but grinding through chronic illness, disability, and pain for over a decade before the end. The queens land on the core problem immediately: modern medicine is fantastic at keeping people alive and not particularly great at keeping them *living*. TT brings up Atul Gawande's *Being Mortal* — a book both women clearly love — and the particularly brutal dynamic Queenie recalls from it: cardiologists who, because they *can* intervene, often feel compelled to, even when enough is enough. TT notes the healthcare staffing crisis layered on top of all this, and the conversation inevitably turns to the current administration's immigration policies gutting the workforce of people who showed up specifically to do those jobs. The whole thing lands somewhere between grim and galvanizing. Somewhere in the middle of all this, the two of them drift into what can only be described as an impromptu spoken word piece about the morbidity gap — trading lines about pills for the knee, stents for the artery, being saved from the dying but not from the living. It's part blues, part comedy roast of American healthcare, and it works. "They'll save you from the dying but they won't save you from the living" is just a line, delivered between two women riffing on a Massachusetts porch, and it lands harder than most things you'll hear in a week. The Wait Wait Wait What segment technically gets absorbed by the Tupperware conversation, which turns out to be surprisingly rich. Queenie makes the case — and it holds up — that younger women might not fully clock what Tupperware actually represented. In an era when women couldn't have their own credit cards, couldn't do the banking, had limited pathways to earning money outside the home, Tupperware parties weren't just about plastic containers with a satisfying burp seal. They were a mechanism for financial independence, schedule flexibility around domestic responsibilities, skill-building in sales and recruiting, and genuine social connection. The parties became a feature of life in the seventies, and TT remembers going to them as a young married woman. Mary Kay gets a mention — founded by a woman in her mid-sixties, which is its own kind of inspiration — and so does Pampered Chef, various home décor party schemes, and Amway (which, as Queenie notes, got a little sketchy). The throughline is women using what was available to them, even when what was available was modest, to carve out something of their own. TT's Choice — the segment where TT picks a number between one and seventy-five and gets a "what if" prompt — lands on number 74: *What if you could add one hour to every day that only you knew about? What goes in it?* TT doesn't hesitate long. Food, cannabis, and time with someone she loves who she doesn't get to see enough. Simple, honest, and a little heartbreaking. Queenie's answer is quieter: solitude, rejuvenation, a reset. Maybe the beach. She admits she's getting to the edge of worn down — grateful for work, glad for the people she's met, but running close to empty in a way that only a vacation can fix. TT, calling from said vacation, is not unsympathetic. Both of them notice that their answers centered on things that would genuinely nourish them — not productivity, not fixing anything for anyone else. As Queenie's mother apparently said: you can't take care of anybody else if you don't take care of yourself. Filed under: things we know and keep having to relearn. There's a brief detour into current events — gold-plated bridge statues installed to the tune of millions, forty-five Cadillac Escalades ordered for a motorcade, an Olympic athlete accused of vandalism in the reflecting pool who's now not being charged because it turned out to be an installation error. TT darkly considers what she'd do with a secret hour and some people she'd like removed from the world. Queenie plays dumb. Moving on. The Fucket List arrives, and TT's entry is: fuck it to wearing a bra. She's on vacation, she doesn't need the support (her words), and she'll wear a dark-colored t-shirt if her sons are around to spare them the trauma. Queenie, who has been going braless in her own house for years, is supportive of this development. The conversation evolves into a full taxonomy of bra policy by outfit type — buttons up, yes; hoodie, no; sundress, absolutely not — and a meditation on gravity, what it does to even modest amounts of breast tissue, and why it's surprising even when you had no real expectations to begin with. From there, the episode drifts into the sweet, slightly rueful territory that this show does so well: the disconnect between what your mind thinks your body can still do and what your body actually does. Queenie is thinking about going to the Cape and already mentally swimming out to a buoy, hauling herself up onto a platform, doing the kinds of things that once required zero advance planning. TT counters that they feel *young* when they're there. Ageless. And that's both the gift and the danger. They swap kayak stories — TT's sister flipping hers while getting out and landing knee-deep in water while TT sat on the beach laughing instead of helping, Queenie's sister stuck in an agonizing cross-country ski split in their mother's backyard while Queenie kept filming and offering no assistance whatsoever. Emergency response systems: fully offline. Comedic response systems: fully operational. The episode wraps warm — Queenie telling TT to enjoy herself, TT telling Queenie to hang in there, she'll be there soon. Queenie can't wait. After the official sign-off, Queenie overshares a little local history: Wolf Road used to be a two-lane farm road. The land behind her mother's house was once a pig farm and meat packing company. You could smell them making the bacon. She doesn't know why she feels compelled to reveal ancient history. She just does. Same, Queenie. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Let's Chat!! Don't knock. Don't invite him in. And whatever you do... don't let the candle go out.This week we're opening the vault and revisiting one of our favorite After Dark episodes: The Midnight Man.Is it just another internet creepypasta... or is it based on something much older? We dig into the strange history of the Midnight Man ritual, the terrifying rules of the game, why it became one of the internet's most infamous paranormal challenges, and the chilling stories from people who swear they played... and weren't alone afterward.Whether you believe it's psychological, paranormal, or just a very bad idea, one thing is certain...Some games aren't meant to be played.Support the showWe'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!!River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.comWebsite: www.c3witchypodcast.comMerch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.comOur wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.comIntro and Outro Audio:podcast intro & outro music:Góða Nótt by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-ttLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-liceSound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Bradley really doged a bullet with Elsa, huh? Good thing he became a depressed alcoholic! Also I'm happy that they got some comeuppance for being so rude to our heroes. Does being rude deserve death? In this instance, yes! But I'm not judge, jury, or executioner. That would be Max Hedman.Sound effects courtesy of Zapsplat.

From 2017, we bring you "Killer Campout" this week. The movie is set in 1989, although that part doesn't matter at all; this could've been set in 2017 or 1964, it didn't matter. A group of troubled youths are brought to a camp for some group therapy and outdoor nature exposure. But a sadistic, cannibalistic killer with a big sharp shield fresh from the Renaissance Faire begins killing and eating them. There's plenty of gory kills but not a lot of plot. Seems like the budget all went to the special effects in this one. Listen, enjoy, rate the show and tell a friend!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drop us a line or two . . .The episode kicks off with Queenie sharing a genuinely sweet midweek adventure: she took two of her assignee's kids — a 17-year-old and a 13-year-old — to the Cheesecake Factory while their parents were opening a bank account. The older one was laser-focused on driving regulations and motorcycle licenses (Queenie admirably held her tongue on the motorcycle safety speech). The younger one? Entirely concerned with what time school starts and what's for breakfast. Kids, man. Dad, who's been in the country solo for five months waiting for his family to arrive, looked — her words — so happy and so relieved. It's a quietly moving little story buried in a Tuesday errand.Then it's time for the cannabis check-in. TT has consumed — a Flora Cal Farms gummy, working through her stash while counting down the days to her Massachusetts trip and a restock. Queenie jumps on that segue to mention there's a governor's race heating up, with one candidate planning to fund state needs through cannabis revenue — you know, the things the federal government has apparently decided are optional. Before anyone can get too excited, Queenie drops a bombshell: Massachusetts may have a ballot initiative this November to *repeal* recreational cannabis legalization. Not scale back, not adjust — repeal. The culprit being cited for upticks in youth cannabis use? Largely unregulated hemp-derived products sold at gas stations, not licensed dispensaries — which, it should be noted, run tighter ID checks than New York. Opponents want to return to a decriminalized-but-not-legal framework. The ladies are bewildered but not surprised. Meanwhile, California's state fair just made cannabis its biggest attraction ever, complete with consumption areas. Conflicting signals, as always.The research corner delivers something genuinely hopeful: a phase-two London trial involving 120 dementia patients found that nearly 90% receiving THC and CBD showed significantly reduced agitation over twelve weeks, compared to typical anti-agitation medications. For anyone who has watched a family member with advanced dementia deteriorate — or watched a caregiver reach their absolute limit — this lands. Queenie notes that agitation is often the tipping point when families say they can't do it anymore. No serious safety issues were reported. Caveats noted (not peer-reviewed, not a first-line therapy, professional supervision required), but the hope is real and both hosts feel it.The "Wait, What?" segment this week is actually a delight: French Sundays. The concept, apparently trending, is simply treating Sunday as the French traditionally do — a full day of rest, family, and absolutely nothing productive. No errands, no scheduled activities, just slow and still. Queenie and Queenie both immediately recognize it as childhood. Before stores were open seven days, before travel sports, before the internet had opinions about your productivity — Sunday was just *off*. The deeper point: you have to be able to do it guilt-free. Not white-knuckling your way through a nap while mentally listing everything you're ignoring. Just... being. Self-hibernation, as Queenie puts it. The episode later ends with TT performing an original French Sundays poem — wine at noon, bread, cheese, no apologies — and it's genuinely lovely.TT's Choice lands on number 23: hot flashes forever vs. night sweats forever. Neither is good. TT picks night sweats immediately — at least you're not performing a personal inferno for a live audience. Queenie agrees, recounting watching a woman her age just *become a furnace* mid-conversation. The solidarity is real. Queenie also admits she still gets the occasional night sweat — that sudden wash of heat moving through your body and then, yes, the cooling bamboo sheets she invested in are now cold and wet. They work. They do not work *enough.* The furnace wins. Another item for the list.Speaking of lists — the Fuck It List delivers this week, and it's a genuine victory lap. The mystery of the missing keys (lost eleven times, found in the bra, the freezer, the planter by the stairs, the coat pockets) has been solved. Queenie zip-tied the key ring directly to the purse. The purse never leaves her mother's side. The lanyard is long enough that she doesn't have to lift the entire purse to unlock a door. No tech, no app, no smart lock — just a six-inch zip tie and the accumulated frustration of a devoted, exhausted daughter who finally said *fuck it* and handled it. She felt triumphant. She deserved to.The episode closes with travel energy — TT and her partner are packing for the Cape, with TT's approach being "throw things on the bed and hope for the best" versus her partner's meticulous shirt count. A suitcase mostly of new underpants is involved. Brynn (daughter) has passed her unofficial puppy audition after successfully dog-sitting, and the puppy in question is growing fast and already doing a 30-second sit-stay before dinner. The pig update is, as always, essential: Bartholomew the 180-pound pet pig demands exactly three Cheerios after using the litter box, has claimed the couch permanently, and once hid himself entirely under a mountain of blankets — invisible, enormous, content. His unofficial co-owner would apparently not contest sole custody. The pig whisperer of the situation? Linda. Alan will not go near it.Next episode, TT will be seaside. Queenie will be counting the days. Everyone is encouraged to try a French Sunday.---## SHORT SUMMARYQueenie meets her assignee's kids over Cheesecake Factory excess, TT works through her cannabis stash while Massachusetts considers *repealing* recreational legalization, and a London dementia study offers real hope about THC and CBD for agitation. Also: night sweats vs. hot flashes, the triumphant zip-tie solution to a lost-key saga, a 180-pound pig who demands three Cheerios post-litter-box, and a pitch for guilt-free French Sundays — complete with an original poem.---## TOP 5 PULL QUOTES**Queenie:** "I understand people who are concerned about heroin and drug use — that ruins your life. But come on, this is pot we're talking about. Not only is it not harmful in most cases when it's used judiciously, it's helpful to people. It's helpful to so many people."**TT:** "I'd have to pick night sweats, even though I still get them sometimes, because at least you're not in public — you're not flaring up and having people stare at you going, 'Dear, are you okay?'"**Queenie:** "Bring the zip ties, bring ingenuity, bring a solution born of love — and zip tie the key to the purse, the purse she never puts down."**TT:** "You have to be able to do it guilt-free. Not sit there thinking, 'God, I should be doing this, I'm just lazy, what is wrong with me?' Because sometimes that's what you need to do."**TT (French Sundays poem):** "No guilt, no hustle, no excuses. Just bread and cheese and no apologies. The French pour the wine at noon and stay there, and nothing productive is missed."---## EPISODE VIBEThis one is warm and a little weary in the best possible way — the kind of episode that feels like a long phone call with someone who gets it. There's genuine tenderness in the stories (a relieved dad reunited with his family after five months, a daughter zip-tying keys to her mother's purse with quiet, determined love), real anger at the absurdity of the cannabis policy landscape, and actual hope in the dementia research. The humor is lived-in rather than performed — night sweat solidarity, a pig who has claimed the couch and everyone just accepts it, a suitcase of underpants as legitimate travel strategy. French Sundays gives it a closing exhale, a collective permission slip to just stop for a minute. It's an episode that earns its wry tone because underneath it, these two are clearly paying attention to the world and to each other. Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a #1 ranked Women in Cannabis (Feedspot, Million Pods; 2025) comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and olderVisit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com,  https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

Statesman, Soldier, Writer, Explorer. Walter Raleigh goes on his greatest adventure yet...a meeting of minds, with the silly boys!  The boys will take a look at his life (and the fit and proper person criteria for the National Curriculum). They explore some myths and the darker corners of Raleigh's life.   What will they find? Well we're pleased you've joined us.  A Royal Charter to explore the New World goes to ZapSplat for music and SFX All the potato he can stuff into a pipe for Jonny of Swan-Dyer Music for extra music A chance for gold in El Dorado for Doug Maxwell for the track Renaissance Castle And a free trip to the Tower of London for Lord Fast Fingers and his Intro music. Check us out on our Insta and Facebook - the Silly History Boys  Show us favour on our KO-FI

Original Air Date: 9/28/2020This week on our throwback feed we bring you one from Season 1 of SlashU, back when we were baby podcasters. It's "Return to Horror High" a movie that starred George Clooney for a hot minute and Marcia Brady herself, Maureen McCormick. What better way to celebrate back to school season than returning to Horror High? Listen, tell a friend, and enjoy the show!Follow us on Instagram @SlashU_PodcastEmail us at SlashUPodcast@gmail.comCheck out the Facebook page too: SlashU PodcastClick any of the Amazon links at SlashUPodcast.com to support the showThanks to ZapSplat.com for our Sound FX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.