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Magnificent Jerk (Podcast)

Recording engineer Favorite Episodes: 沙塵 (saa cen) < LISTEN HERE > Awards and Mentions: • Vulture's Best Podcasts of 2023 • KCRW feature • New Yorker: Best Podcasts of 2023

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Know any haunted roads in the San Francisco Bay Area?

Hey all you spooky people! Remember back when Cody and Garth drove Hicks Road in San Jose and filmed our drive? They're ready for another nighttime sojourn into the world of the paranormal and strange. But the boys need some help picking what road they should drive. So that is why they are asking for a little research help...

There are many "haunted" roads in the San Francisco Bay Area (their general neck of the woods), and that is a lot of choices to consider. With that in mind, why not make this interactive?

Do an internet search for haunted roads in the Bay Area and then share your findings as a suggestion down below. After enough suggestions have been submitted to create a list, Cody and Garth will let Patreon vote on what road they drive down late at night with dash cam.

Their haunted future is in your hands!

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This week on The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer podcast, Marvin Lopez, director of programs for Engineering Student Services (ESS), gives us many of the reasons that learning outside of the classroom is important to having a well-rounded education. Plus, you’ll get to learn more about the programs offered by ESS and the team that makes it all happen.

Listen here.

Pictured: A green graphic including a headshot of Marvin Lopez.

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Salma Zaky Profile

She’s just here to tell jokes, and that’s refreshing...

A couple of weeks ago, Denver-based comedian Hannah Jones and I were talking about some comics she found to be funny when she threw out a name I had never heard before — Salma Zaky. Naturally, I was curious, so I did what any person raised in the age of technology would do — I googled her, which only left me wanting more. What I came to find out during my little game of internet sleuth was that…

[timeservedpod]

TIME SERVED - Ground Zero

It wouldn’t be right if I didn’t start this off with the expression of my gratitude for all of the listeners and all of the readers who have come to any of our platforms to see what we’re about. We owe the current and future success to our supporters and we’re nothing without you. While we’re getting the wheels going, I figured why not give readers a little bit of insight on what Time Served is and how it all started. Lets go.

In the beginning stages my mind had been all over the place, brainstorming and developing the idea… that part of the process included sitting down and talking with people who were very much so trauma informed. Some were mental health clinicians, some were previously incarcerated and some are currently incarcerated… the kind that aren’t coming home. It was then that I was made aware of a list of things that hadn’t crossed my mind and it played a big part in the direction and development of this whole thing.

I would essentially be interviewing people who had served time for having allegedly committing various crimes, and almost forcing them to relive their time behind bars. My folks kept telling me.. for some, that can be incredibly difficult.. especially for those who have detached themselves from their past. However, I still pressed on.. I felt like this had to done.

Weeks later, I was asked to speak at a prayer summit hosted by Dr. Alisha Hill and I had a chance to share a bit of my story and various traumas I had experienced. One of my traumas I shared was about my brother, who was shot 11 times, which practically left him immobilized. It was also important to share that he has re-entered into society and he’s doing better now than I’ve ever seen him do… he was a new father with a family… he obtained a job working in the mental health field with the knowledge he acquired while studying in prison… he assisted a number of people in need… he helped them turn their lives around, just as someone had done for him.

It was that experience that revealed to me what I needed to highlight. So many black/brown men and women are excluded from some sectors of society and almost “written off” completely after they’ve served time. This podcast was created and exists for the purposes of not only giving honor to those who are deserving for their integrity and accountability… but to pierce the hearts of the generation before.. in attempt to capture the listening of our millennial youth. That is the only way to prevent violence and prison stays for our youth who are growing into adulthood, and our adults who are needed as mentors in our black/brown communities all over America.

This is the Time Served Podcast, welcome to the yard!

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[unpretty]

heyo! you introduced me to garbage day (as well as today in tabs but that is on hiatus from what i can gather). do you have anything similar that you would recommend?

here's the garbage day referral link again because i'm annoying

if you want newsletters, i'm not really subscribed to that many, at least not many similar to garbage day. there's What The Fuck Just Happened Today, which started during the trump years for obvious reasons and also has a podcast version. it's pretty much all politics.

Morning Brew Daily is like. a normie news roundup. maybe not full normie because it's got a certain whiff of bay area tech startup culture on it but it's still a decent morning scroll and better than learning about headlines on tumblr lmao. also if i refer five people i get a free tote. love a free tote. i think they have a video version on youtube and nebula but the dudes are kind of annoying.

Money Stuff by Matt Levine requires you to give your email to bloomberg (ugh) but is more interesting than it has any right to be and is great if you want to learn how everything is securities fraud. there is a weekly podcast roundup if you want to be unsettled by matt levine's voice and not read a very long newsletter every weekday.

none of these really have a garbage day vibe though. when i think of things that have a garbage day vibe i mostly think of Never Post, which is a podcast instead of a newsletter. there are probably a lot of podcasts more in that wheelhouse but that's the first one that comes to mind. also garbage day has a podcast now.

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What's sirentale sans like as a dad since that's a possible outcome? (Oh and sirentale wingding as a grandpa since he sees the MC as his child)

Hands on. He wants this so bad, so when the opportunity comes he’s desperate to be a good dad.

He’s read every book available. Listened to every podcast he can get his hands on. Taken classes on childcare and CPR.

Nest. NEST FOR THE CHILD. It is non negotiable. Baby sleeps with you both in your nest until old enough that Sans is reasonably confident they won’t die without constant supervision.

If you’re nursing, he’s got a constant streamline of snacks and water for you. If you’re using formula, he’s happy to take over feeding shifts so you can sleep.

Gets fast with diaper changes. Like, you have to wonder if there’s a world record because he’s so fast the baby doesn’t even register they’re missing pants.

Weaves a personal swaddle blanket for the baby using his own threads.

Toddler stage he’s taking them out for swimming lessons on the daily. If they’ve inherited his moth side, he’ll swap it out for flying. Exercise is an important developmental aspect and he won’t skimp out on it.

Lazy! Cuddle! Sundays! Or whichever day you also have off. It’s a day dedicated to constant snuggles in the family home. No leaving. No cooking. No chores. Just constant physical affection and play.

When the child is big enough to rough house, Sans is ready to play. Orcas love playing with their pods, and one of his favorite games is chase! If his kid shows interest in being the predator he’s happy to play dead every so often.

But the kid DOES have to work for it. He won’t give it freely.

If you have a demanding job, he’ll take a career in education so he has more free time to spend with them. If you want to stay at home / take a more freeing job then he’ll take a career in science with Wingding.

He’s on the PTA. He will fight any Karen or Chad who gets in the way of his kid’s education.

(He and Wingdings will join forces as need be in this regard. Education is very important to both of them. And Wingding lowkey loves the tea.)

Sometimes he likes to tease you about the drama. It’s cute seeing his little penguin get riled up.

“You cannot eat Billy’s Mom, Sans.”

“what if billy’s mom deserves it?”

“She’s just doing what she thinks is best for the children.”

“well what she thinks is stupid.”

You sign to Wingding for help. He shrugs and signs, “He’s not wrong.”

You give them both a look of pain.

Sans’ grin stretches. “i won’t eat her.”

“No hypnotizing either.”

“i won’t eat her.”

“Sans!”

He jokes but he won’t do anything that could jeopardize his kid’s life.

Little bit of a helicopter parent. Not in a restrictive way, but in a I need you to be honest and tell me where you are at all times way. He’s mostly supportive of whatever the kid wants to do and doesn’t care for curfews, just as long as he knows where his kid (and obviously it’s not a super dangerous area).

Although he won’t let his kid sleep over at someone else’s place. Too risky.

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Wingding as a grandpa?

Oooooh. . . He doesn’t know how to deal with kids. He needs a lot of practice. The first time the baby cries in his arms, he is devastated.

You have to repeatedly reassure him it’s not him personally; the baby just needs to get to know him!

Wingding takes this to mean he has to visit daily to see the baby. Sans is Not Happy.

But Wingding knows the way to keep Sans at bay is through you, so he always brings your favorite treats as a bribe.

First time baby smiles at Wingding, he is struck by such overwhelming cute aggression he has to hand the baby back to you so he can excitedly sign.

If you get him a Best Grandpa mug he drinks from it daily.

At babbling stage, Wingding loves to listen to them talk. He nods along to everything they say even though he doesn’t understand a word of it.

When the child is big enough to go to school, Wingding will occasionally take them out of school as a surprise day trip to the movies.

So! Many! Books! The child will never want for books. Monthly grandpa/grandbaby trips to the bookstore.

You essentially have a permanent free babysitter whenever you and Sans need time to yourselves.

He loves them.

PLAY - IF SIREN CALL FOR SANS’ ROUTE

MASTERLIST

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For Christen Press, the Joy is in the Journey

Progress isn’t perfect.

That’s been Christen Press’s motto over the 781 days since she last played in a soccer match—and not just when it comes to her recovery from the ACL tear she sustained in June, 2022, but also when thinking about life as a whole.

“You have to accept that things won’t go the way you think they will, but maybe they’ll go better,” she explains. “Progress isn’t linear. It’s up and down and back and forth. But in that movement there’s more than what you ever imagined. So the imperfection—the struggle, the setbacks—those are actually the greatest gifts as you get to learn about yourself and you have the chance to grow.”

Press has had more than her share of setbacks over the last two years, as an initial surgery turned into two, then three, and finally four.

“I think every single time that I was told I’d have to have surgery, from the first ACL reconstruction and the three scopes that I had, I always thought I would be on the quickest timeline possible,” said Press when she returned to Angel City training in June. “I think that's part of who I am. I'm just relentlessly optimistic. I'm naively positive, and just thinking that everything's going to work out for me—and I never want that to change, you know? And I got off course of all of those timelines so many times that I finally had to actually relinquish that expectation of myself.”

In her two years off the field, Press says she’s grown and healed in more ways than just physically, but the goal was always to return, even if that possibility felt far off at times.

“I never thought about giving up,” says Press, “but there were moments that I thought I’d have to accept that I wouldn’t make it—or that ‘making it’ might not look how I expected.”

One of the hardest things about this process has been accepting that the outcome was not fully under her control. “I’m able to do a lot of suffering for success, and I’ve been that way since I was a child,” she says. “The question I had to answer was how to accept and be open to things I cannot control.”

Press had access to the best medical and rehabilitation care in the business—first at the Meyer Institute of Sports, an El Segundo rehab and performance facility specializing in elite athletes, and then with Angel City’s training staff, including VP of Medical and Performance Sarah Smith, Head Athletic Trainer Manny De Alba, Head of Sports Science Dan Jones, Director of Rehabilitation Sarah Neal, Performance Coach Michael Roman, Assistant Athletic Trainer April Seymon, and Senior Physical Therapist Joscelyn Shumate Bourne.

Ultimately, bodies don’t always heal the way we hope they will. All she could do was show up every day and try her best.

“I had to make decisions that centered my well being and full personhood,” she says. “To start to find my inherent value outside of excellence in the pitch.”

In part, that meant finding joy in other areas of life. She worked on her business, re–Inc, including starting a podcast with (business and life) partner Tobin Heath, initially focusing on the 2023 World Cup, then branching out to cover women’s soccer more generally. She went to the beach. She spent time with family.

In some ways, this time away from the game Press loves has been freeing. “The last two years have been the first of my career that I wasn’t evaluated on my performance,” she says. “I showed up for PT every day with a smile on my face and gave max effort. That’s all I had to do.”

Press’s return comes at a perfect time for the club: they’ve begun to build momentum with two convincing Summer Cup wins, against Club América and Bay FC, as they look ahead to the back half of the regular season. Playoffs are still well within reach heading into this stretch, a fact that Press’s return can only make more tangible.

“Her quality is inevitable,” says First Assistant Coach Eleri Earnshaw. “Last week in training, she scored a couple of goals that we haven't seen anyone else do yet this season in training.”

Returning to play after such a long hiatus isn’t easy for anyone, but Earnshaw says there’s a point the coaching staff have emphasized both to Press and to other injured players eyeing a return to the field: “your ability doesn't change overnight,” she says. “There are some things that just stay with you. Her chance creation, her separation from defenders—you’ve got to be in the right physical and mental place to be able to perform those things, to be confident to do it, but she is building those things up every day.”

“If we can get that quality onto the pitch for any number of minutes, great,” she concludes.

As Press anticipates her return to what she calls “the real world of professional sports”—one “filled with stress and pressure and often angst,” as she puts it—she’s going in with a fresh perspective.

“I’m determined to enjoy it,” she says. “I know who I am as a player and person, and I see this opportunity as a chance to do what I love. I told my teammates today: football is a miracle. It’s a miracle we get to do the thing we love.”

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Throwback Thursday

3 Years Ago

We hosted a podcasting basics class. Should we bring this class back?

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episode one hundred fifty three - non diegetic(((s))) tapecase radio by touch touch publishing

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Exploring Diverse Conversations: From Fruit Picking to Social Change

Welcome to our blog post where we delve into the intriguing conversations from a recent podcast episode. From light-hearted discussions about fruit picking to thought-provoking topics like social change and online behavior, this episode covers a wide range of subjects. Join us as we explore the highlights and key takeaways from this engaging conversation. Fruit Picking: A Juicy Topic In this…

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I did a short interview for an alumni spotlight on the CCA website. You can click through but I'll also just copy my answers below the cut.

Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) is a nonbinary/queer/trans author and illustrator, a voracious reader, a k-pop fan, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in Gender Queer: A Memoir and in eir other short comics, published by The New Yorker, The Nib, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies. Gender Queer won a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2020. It was also the most challenged book in the United States in 2021 and 2022.

Maia shares more about eir life as a full-time artist and activist, fighting to protect diverse literature and the freedom to access information.

1. What is your current practice/business?

I am a full time cartoonist. My job consists of days working at home writing and drawing mixed with days speaking out against book banning and censorship, and in support of the freedom to read, the freedom to teach, and the freedom to access information. I spend a lot of time talking with other authors, teachers, and librarians about protecting diverse and queer books from the current wave of conservative attacks. The first piece I drew for the comics journalism site The Nib was about the rise of fascism in the United States; my later writing about queer, trans, and nonbinary identities has led me into consistently political territory.

2. Why did you choose CCA?

I chose CCA because I was looking for a MFA Comics program, of which there are very few, and I wanted to stay in the Bay Area. Because I'm a local, I was able to meet the majority of the MFA Comics faculty before I applied and felt immediately welcomed into their community. The fact that a majority of my professors for the first year of the program were queer was a huge draw as well.

3. If you could share one piece of advice with current or future students, what would it be?

Every single person has a story only they could tell. No matter what media you are working in, do your best to tell the story which is uniquely yours. If you aren't ready to tell it yet, just keep making art until the time to share that story arrives. No time spent creating is ever wasted.

4. What's your secret to staying inspired and creative?

I realized fairly early in life that my very favorite way to spend the day was drawing while listening to music, a podcast, or an audiobook. I like making things! I would rather be making things than doing almost anything else. I created a life in which I can spend a lot of time creating things and even if I don't particularly know what I am making, I am happy.

5. What do you have coming up?

My second book, Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding, written with Dr Sarah Pietzmeier, is coming out in May 2024 from Dutton. It's a nonfiction comic about chest binding as an aspect of trans healthcare. I'm currently drawing my third book, Saachi's Stories, written with Lucky Srikumar; it's due out from Scholastic Graphix in 2026. I am also working on adapting Gender Queer: A Memoir into an audiobook.