Thank You for Spieling podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

"Thank You for Spore-ing" is BACK! Just in time for Season 2 of HBO's "The Last of Us" show, join Eric and Chelsea who will actually be part of the panel on weekly episodes from "What the Hype?!"

Here are some NEW LINKS and instructions for those who'd love to continue the journey that started here on this feed.

• Follow the "What the Hype?!" Youtube channel for LiveStreams immediately following every Sunday's episode. 
• Videos will be released on YouTube, and full audio episodes will be available on the web site, and everywhere podcasts are found.

TWO brand new episodes have been recorded with Eric and Chelsea and they were joined enthusiastically by Laura Tee. 

• Season 1 Recap Episode, going back through Season 1 of HBO's "The Last of Us," and also making some non-spoiler predictions about Season 1.
• Season 2 SPOILER HEAVY PREDICTIONS, an episode where 3 hosts that have all played TLOU Part II try and figure out how the season will be split, and what it will mean for the show this year!

What the Hype Podcast dot com is the web site. We are so excited to keep spore-ing and now with an even larger group of friends!

HBO's "The Last of Us" episode 9 is upon us! It's titled "Look For the Light" and is the Season One finale! I bring my friend and longtime fellow TLOU stan Chad Hopkins on for our weekly reaction podcast to the exciting event series starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.

Now that we've reached the end of Season One, all talk about the plot for The Last of Us - Part II is reserved for the spoiler section which begins at 1:10:00.

On this episode, we reach the destination with our heroes and hard choices are made.

Find Eric on Twitter at @spielerman, and find the show at @TYFSpiels.

Find Chad on Twitter at @chadadada, and find his Avatar: The Last Airbender podcast "Crossroads of Destiny" wherever podcasts are found. Also check out The Cinescope Podcast where Chad talks about favorite movies with his friends. 

Thank you to everyone who has been listening along on the journey. "Thank You for Spore-ing" will return!

E-mail us at thankyouforspieling@gmail.com.

For the start of Season 2, I am joined by my long time MuggleCast podcast co-host and dear friend Micah Tannenbaum for a two-part interview about our life outside of Harry Potter! On this Part 2 episode, we discuss high school field trips and learning the value of education, weathering the costs for college and we also dive deep into life with an anxiety disorder as both Eric and Micah offer tips to overcome high anxiety, and Micah shares his experiences from childhood. This is a can't-miss conlusion to this 2-part interview.

Thanks to Robert Southgate for his excellent work editing, visit Rob's web site where he offers consultations on a number of podcast marketing services, at RobSouthgate.com.

Episode Anxiety resources:

The Anxiety Guy on YouTube, Micah's favorite channel

The phone app "Two Dots," Eric's favorite calming pass-time, on Apple App Store and Google Play store

Find Micah on Twitter at @mjtbaum!

Find the show on Twitter at @TYFSpiels!

Thank You for Spieling is back!!!!!!

For the start of Season 2, I am joined by my long-time MuggleCast podcast co-host and dear friend Micah Tannenbaum for a two-part interview about our life outside of Harry Potter! We talk about formative experiences, favorite TV shows, early celebrity crushes, and much more on this Part 1 episode. Part 2 will be released next week or sooner. Thank you all for waiting during the inter-season break, and thanks especially to Rob Southgate for his amazing work editing our entire convo.

Find Rob's podcast marketing/editing/consulting business on his web site, RobSouthgate.com

Discussion topics bullet points:

- Are we famous?
- When Eric and Micah first met
- Micah discusses the small age difference between him and the other MuggleCasters
- Let's talk about our childhoods!
- Was Micah a Barney kid or Sesame Street kid?
- Nickelodeon, TGIF, and Pokemon... what TV were we watching?
- What video games were we playing at friends' houses?
- What were our first celebrity crushes?
- A tribute to comedians from late night TV icons to Robin Williams and Billy Crystal
- Micah's great story about a mishap in French class, and telling your teachers they were wonderful is so important.

Part 2 will include more talk on arts, college experiences, anxiety disorders and therapy, and so much more. Thanks for listening!

It's been a few months since our last Covid-19 check in episode, so I welcome back Dr. Preeyam Patel to chat about the Delta variant, breakthrough cases, vaccine boosters and more! The science is presented in such a way that a layperson such as myself can understand, as with our previous episodes!

Topics in-depth:
- Will Covid become endemic, like the flu?
- Why the so-called "free" vaccine may not actually be free in the US
- All things Delta variant. What makes it more contagious? How effective are vaccines?
- Here are two graphs that show the differences in variants (One) and (Two)
- WHAT ARE BREAKTHROUGH cases, and what happens in the body when they occur?
- The Korean study on viral load, which serves as a Provincetown event rebuttal
- Is the mutation of variants intelligent? Will a Covid variant one day bypass all vaccines?
- How can we get the entire globe vaccinated easier and stop continued variants?
- Regarding children, how is vaccine approval going, and what are schools doing against masks?
- How are we currently staying safe?

Here's the overall Sources Cited document from all our episodes including this one, that Pree keeps up to date: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10KhFPu739N16C6X3Lltz3LBWMYON7Lld2yPB5y0zbUs/edit?usp=sharing

Follow Dr. Patel on Twitter (@ThePreesKnees)
Follow us on Twitter! (@TYFSpiels)

"Thank You for Spieling" is one year old! I am joined by fellow podcaster and friend Julianna (last heard on Episode 2 of this show!) to get crazy and discuss her thoughts as well as my major takeaways from the first year of Spieling.

Secrets are told, as I reveal the official lyrics to the TYFS theme song, and admit that much like a certain fictional farm boy, what I'm really saying when I podcast with people is, "I love you." 

It's a very candid and zany episode, where we are even joined by The Pizza Wizard from PuffCast! Julianna has also started a new Shadow and Bone universe podcast, called Into the Fold! Definitely check it out.

If you have particular thoughts on the show, as always you may email them to thankyouforspieling@gmail.com.

Thank you to all listeners old and new, and especially thanks to all of my guests so far: Chad H., Julianna C., Caleb W., David P., Angela K., Dave J., Ben S., Brittney B., Hannah E., Josh S., Dr. Preeyam P., Derek M., Drew K., Andrea W., Karen Y., Melissa A., Joe F., Jen U., Sarah D., Menachem C., Fuchsia R., and Janet S.! And thank you to Yike Lu for the amazing theme song and Meg Scott for the wonderful show art.

The month of May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! On this very special episode of Thank You for Spieling, I interview my mother, Janet Scull, about her long career as a speech and language pathologist working in a school district for 34 years. It was a great treat to finally talk to my mom about her career, now that I am older and understand such things! Despite retiring last year, my mom's clear dedication and depth of knowledge in the subject and her passion are clearer than ever.

We cover such topics as:

• How did she become aware of speech pathology?
• What courses did she take in college for speech pathology?
• What are the most common impairments her patients would have?
• What is her unique approach to teaching / her style?
• How do you teach a person who has suffered a stroke to swallow or to talk again?
• Why do we speak? How do we speak?
• How do you prioritize goals to work on in a patient with multiple issues?
• What have been the highlights of her teaching career?

If you have any comments on the episode, please e-mail us at thankyouforspieling@gmail.com

Refer to ASHA.org for any resources pertaining to the field of speech and language pathology.

On this episode I'm joined by my friend Fuchsia Rascal who is a real-life practicing witch! All my years spent podcasting on Harry Potter could not have prepared me to hear about what real witches do (and don't do), compared to the movies and books! And Fuchsia, who I met through Harry Potter over a decade ago, is the perfect guest to get me (and listeners) caught up. Follow us into the broom closet as we discuss the following things:

—How did Fuchsia get started as a witch?
—Are there organized religions for witches and what are they?
—Who is the Green Man?
—How a trip to New Zealand awakened dormant spiritual feelings
—Not everyone who does magic would even call themselves a witch, so how is magic defined?
—Common expressions such as "knock on wood," blowing out candles on the birthday cake, ARE magic!
—Does all magic has a cost? What is karmic balance and karmic debt?
—Men and nonbinary people can be witches, too!
—"Occultist, magician, warlock, magic practitioner" are all valid titles
—Was playing MASH as a kid being witchy?
—Fuchsia and Eric discuss the art of tarot reading, and how it works.
—Oracle decks as separate / assistant to tarot
—Black cats and books of shadows - what in witchcraft has pop culture gotten right?
—Is using Ouija board magic? Does making contact with the spiritual realm get covered in paganism/Wicca?
—What are some good resources for curious witches?
—What has changed since embracing witchcraft?

Find Fuchsia on the following platforms!

| Twitter | YouTube | Instagram | Twitch | 

And check out the Offbeats Discord and on Twitter!

Returning to the podcast is Dr. Preeyam Patel (@ThePreesKnees) to mark one year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic! Tune in for the latest scientific facts that have been heavily checked, being explained in ways that make sense. We also praise the amazing speed by which the US President was able to secure vaccines and have the US administer over 100M at the date of airing, pledging even more. And, a first for this show, we discuss CHILDREN getting COVID and what the statistics and reasons behind them are for the spread and condition of public health.

- We reflect on one year since the start of the pandemic, and one year since Dr. Patel had COVID herself.
- Eric has received dose 1 of Pfizer!
- US distributes 100 M vaccines, 25% of all vaccines that have gone out worldwide. Joseph R. Biden and this presidential administration's reliance on Science is to thank.
- What's up with the recent CDC recommendation for DOUBLE MASKING? (Fit and filter)
- Vaccine hesitancy, are we seeing as much as we expected?
- (33:15) non-political discussion begins
- What is COVAX?
- How effective are other countries' vaccines, Sputnik, Sinovac, etc?
- (38:15) How Eric got the vaccine
- (47:40) A Re-rundown of Covid Vaccines available in US and how they work.
- JNJ vaccine efficacy. Is it right to want a more efficacious vaccine???
- Check out this new graph about JNJ's efficacy over time
- What's cool about the new Novovax vaccine?
- See this NY Times interactive vaccine diagram!
- The Novovax vaccine uses something called an adjuvant, and a nanoparticle? Dr. Patel explains
- AstraZeneca controversy, what happened with testing, what's going on with blood clots?
- Dr. Patel discusses the heavy reality of burnout among healthcare workers and makes a grim prediction
- People who've had COVID may only need one dose of vaccine
- If your arm doesn't hurt after your shot, did the vaccine work and do you still have immunity?
- Is the second dosage more painful? Why might that be?
- Should you get it vaccinated in the same arm both times?
- Why do some people develop rashes after their vaccinations, and is it cause for concern?
- Don't freak out if you get an antibody test post vaccine and it says you don't have COVID antibodies
- (1:47:09) COVID-19 in Children discussion begins
- How does a child's immune system work?
- How does a child's immune system compare to adults?
- Debunked: False info stated that children simply can't get COVID-19. We discuss why children can spread the virus as much if not more than adults, but why their susceptibility to the virus seems lower, and what severe COVID looks like in kids.
- Returning to former show topics with current updates, we talk about COVID Long-haulers and how vaccines have been helping them with their symptoms.
- View this impressive graph of the Spike Protein arrow
- Reinfection statistics, what we know now above those with natural and vaccine immunities.

Our previous episodes with Dr. Patel were:
15. COVID-19, New Year, New Science Facts!

12. Election Takeaways and FUN with COVID Vaccine News!

8. Fun with COVID-19 Antibodies!

As always, we have a Sources Cited Google Doc kept up to date.

What can roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons teach us about the Divine? How can an increasingly secular world find answers to life's deepest questions through means other than organized religion? The latest episode of Thank You for Spieling discusses this and much more as my friend Sarah Davis joins me in interviewing Menachem Cohen, a spiritual leader and rabbi from Chicago whose work using games to guide youths and adults spiritually is quickly garnering attention.

Each of the hosts recount their experience with roleplaying games, as well as their connection with spirituality and how it may have been affected and disaffected by their religious upbringings. A great topic which was a lot of fun to delve into. And then, Menachem shares a Howard Thurman quote which touches each of the hosts incredibly.

Find Menachem on Facebook, and at WhatMakesYouComeAlive.Net

Find Sarah on her web site, on Instagram, and on the TableHops Twitch stream every Wednesday!

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