After touching on Pride Month and trans dignity, Audrey talks about her joy, pressures, and long term goals in helping others heal, while Patrick discusses taking a chip for 8 years of continuous sobriety. Expressions of hope and joy are vital countermessaging in the era of Trump.

Opening quote by Zohran Mamdani

Main show theme is “Strangers” by Midnight Prisms

Music and lyrics by Alicia Beck

Music and production by Max Foreman

Mastering by Little Castle Sound

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Main logo art by Patrick Mitchell and Angelina Harvey (@graffitifucks on Instagram)

Patrick Newman, Audrey Comber, 12 Steps, Recovery, Addiction, LGBT, Pride Month

• (00:00:00) - Mental illness in the DSM-5
• (00:05:56) - Vanessa Bee on Trans Issues
• (00:12:49) - How to Stop Being a Shoddy Clinician
• (00:14:59) - Is Social Work More Head or Heart Oriented?
• (00:20:20) - How to Rest Your Body With Burnout
• (00:21:22) - How has your sponsor affected your recovery?
• (00:26:37) - I Have a Hard Time Sitting With My Feelings
• (00:33:10) - Bob Ferguson on the millionaires tax
• (00:39:12) - He Supports Ron DeSantis

Audrey and Patrick welcome Melanie C. to talk about second chances, disillusionment with electoral politics, and Michael Clayton. Covid lockdown, parental support and medication-assisted treatment helped Melanie find recovery from a fifteen year opiate addiction. Reading Edward Said in college began her education on Palestine and her advocacy for humanity and liberation.

We shouldn’t demand that revolution and resistance come in the ideological manner we prefer. We aren’t okay with our comfort coming at the expense of human lives. As a practice, Melanie suggests that when it comes to social and political critique, we also put mirror on ourselves: how are we contributing to our communities, to our civics, beyond posting?

Follow Melanie on Twitter: @benzostraydogs

Her Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/benzostraydogs/

Opening quote by filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, about Starship Troopers

Anna Scanlon’s Substack: https://substack.com/@rockfoils

Main show theme is “Strangers” by Midnight Prisms

Music and lyrics by Alicia Beck

Music and production by Max Foreman

Mastering by Little Castle Sound

Please follow and listen to Midnight Prisms on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3o5jiLSZMoSXNWL98UBxYI?si=sK-K7IoUSp-QfFKgUwVY7A

Main logo art by Patrick Mitchell and Angelina Harvey (@graffitifucks on Instagram)

• (00:00:00) - "War makes fascist of us all"
• (00:00:51) - Mad Max and Fury Road: Cinephile Talk
• (00:03:57) - The Pit Fanatic On ER
• (00:07:49) - I Run Into Former Employee From My Heroin Addiction
• (00:14:09) - Bipolar patient's struggle to quit smoking after 30 years
• (00:16:22) - Melanie on Her Own Sobriety
• (00:23:19) - Anti-Israel People on the Democrats
• (00:30:45) - Members of the DSA Get Involved in the Resistance
• (00:38:02) - Gen Xers on the 2020 election
• (00:39:00) - George Clooney in '
• (00:44:03) - In The Elevator With Michael Clayton

Nick Casaccio joins us to talk about Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine and its twin dynamics of alcoholism and codependency, relating Mark Kerr’s struggles to our own recoveries. Addiction has a habit of migrating, and we discuss how gambling, shopping, and relationships have taken our stories down new rabbit holes. Nick finished school while he was in treatment more than thirteen years ago, and through Covid, bodybuilding, relationship struggles and physical ailments has continually offered himself in fellowship.

The ultimate purpose of celebrating recovery milestones is to inspire newcomers and share our experience strength and hope to those who still suffer.

Opening clip by Mark Kerr, from a 2009 interview

Episode cover art by Perry Kneisel

Main show theme is “Strangers” by Midnight Prisms

Music and lyrics by Alicia Beck

Music and production by Max Foreman

Mastering by Little Castle Sound

Please follow and listen to Midnight Prisms on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3o5jiLSZMoSXNWL98UBxYI?si=sK-K7IoUSp-QfFKgUwVY7A

Main logo art by Patrick Mitchell and Angelina Harvey (@graffitifucks on Instagram)

• (00:00:00) - A Men's Stag Birthday Bash
• (00:05:42) - How I Learned To Stop Drinking Alcohol During My Dark Times
• (00:11:08) - Gambling Helped Me Finish High School
• (00:17:18) - Casinos are a Bad Place for Gambling Stars
• (00:22:36) - Bipolar Patient Nick On His Spending Sprees
• (00:26:19) - The Smashing Machine: Ending Explained
• (00:27:13) - The Importance of 'The Codependent'
• (00:34:16) - Bipolar patient celebrates her 10th birthday