Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late-Capitalist Heckscape – Details, episodes &amp; analysis

Apple | Spotify | YouTube

Content note: this episode contains swearing, and discussion of medical trauma

Elle Billing hosts Jordan Thornquest, a musician and game developer on the first episode of 2025. They exchange memories of Jordan's 2020 car accident in Twin Falls, which aside from being an insurance nightmare, left him with a spinal injury and a long recovery. Jordan reflects on how the accident changed his perspective on disability, pain, self-care, and creativity. Elle and Jordan illuminate the life-altering experience of acquired disability, highlighting the importance of empathy, patience, and understanding chronic pain.

Links to connect with Jordan, as well as all other resource links, are **in the full show notes at hoorfpodcast.com

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

Join the Blessed Herd of Saint Winkus: Sign up for our newsletter, get Hoorf! episodes delivered directly to your inbox. What's more, you get invitations to our monthly Coffee and Biscuits Chat, where you get to hang out with Ricki and Elle, talk about the show, and connect on the topics that mean the most to you.

Become a Patron:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

all I want for Christmas is Moo (Deng), with Ricki Cummings

Season 3 · Episode 6

lundi 23 décembre 2024 • Duration 45:28

Apple | Spotify | YouTube

In their annual "let's just chat" episode of Hoorf, Elle Billing and Ricki Cummings weave together stories about navigating life with chronic illness, from the profound to the ridiculous. Between tales of Winkie the dog's adventures and updates from her dad's community Christmas concert, the conversation takes a more serious turn as they discuss food allergies, with Elle processing her emotional response to a Disney influencer's tragic death from a severe peanut allergy. Throughout their meandering discussion, a deeper truth emerges about the vital importance of feeling truly seen and heard.

Links to connect with Elle and Ricki, as well as all other resource links, are in the full show notes at hoorfpodcast.com

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

Become a Patron:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

tell your story, and tell it well, with guest Max Kringen

Season 2 · Episode 13

lundi 8 avril 2024 • Duration 43:29

Apple | Spotify | YouTube

Our personal and brand stories are powerful tools to connect with others, and marketing in the last several years has exploded with story-based strategies for everyone from solopreneurs to huge corporations. Max Kringen, the founder of a Fargo-based story-driven creative studio, joins Elle to talk about the power of story not just for a marketing edge, but for its ability to foster community, build empathy, and share our vision for how we want the world to look.

Links to connect with Max and Tellwell Story Co., and to find Pride Stories Video and Podcast series, are in the full show notes at hoorfpodcast.com

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

Become a Patron:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

grey-area drinking and the mother wound, with recovery coach Kristy Sarausky

Season 2 · Episode 12

lundi 25 mars 2024 • Duration 46:35

Everywhere you look, “Wine Mom” and other alcohol-adjacent identity branding hits us in the face, marketed specifically to women and femmes as a way to unwind and cope with the ever-increasing demands of contemporary life. In this episode of Hoorf!, Elle chats with Kristy Sarausky, a grey-area drinking recovery coach, about grey-area drinking— that nebulous space between sobriety and rock bottom where so many of us find ourselves using booze to manage our stress and not manage our emotions and inner lives. Both Elle and Kristy share some vulnerable truths about their own histories with alcohol, their journeys to sobriety, and the reasons so many of us tend to reach for a bottle. Spoiler: it’s the trauma, mama.

Links to connect with Kristy, and to find resources she mentions, are **in the full show notes at hoorfpodcast.com

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Become a Patron:

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

Everybody Dance! a conversation on our creative lenses with documentary filmmaker Dan Watt

Season 2 · Episode 11

lundi 11 mars 2024 • Duration 42:41

Dancer, choreographer, and documentary filmmaker Dan Watt joins Elle for the first episode of March, which is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. He is eager to share his film Everybody Dance, which follows a group of diverse dancers with various disabilities as they prepare for a recital with an inclusive dance studio, Ballet For All Kids. Dan, who is not disabled, and Elle, who has acquired a disability later in her life, discuss their love of the arts, the joys and challenges of working creatively with children of any ability, and their evolving capacities to center the voices, consent, and autonomy of the disabled individuals with whom they have worked.

You can find links to Everybody Dance! in the full show notes at hoorfpodcast.com

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Become a Patron:

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

MAID to order; a frank discussion on Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying, with disability advocate Andrew Gurza

Season 2 · Episode 10

lundi 26 février 2024 • Duration 45:00

Content note: this episode contains swearing, and is a frank discussion about death, directed death, and medically assisted dying. We encourage our listeners to exercise care while listening to this episode.

Toronto-based disability advocate and real-life disabled icon Andrew Gurza returns to Hoorf for their second appearance in this heavy-hitting episode. Andrew and Elle share a frank discussion about MAID, Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying program. Andrew shares his raw feelings about a friend who has applied for MAID, their deep concerns about how the program is being offered to disabled Canadians, and what the availability of the program signifies about the failing social supports for vulnerable Canadians.

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Become a Patron:

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

people are just complicated plants, with Curly Dacs of Griot Goods

Season 2 · Episode 9

lundi 12 février 2024 • Duration 45:53

Content Note: this episode contains swearing

Griot Goods owner and exuberant plant nerd Curly Dacs joins Elle for an upbeat episode, where Curly shares some wisdom from the potting bench: people are really just complicated plants. Plant parents of all skill levels (and no skill level at all!) will want to hear what she has to say, so dig into this conversation, forgive yourself for past plant failings, and remember to hydrate.

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Become a Patron:

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

I understood that reference! A pop-culture artist heals with art, with Dextra Hoffman

Season 2 · Episode 8

lundi 8 janvier 2024 • Duration 43:48

Dextra Hoffman’s talent as a portrait artist first captured Elle’s attention when Dex posted a WiP (work in progress) of Kate McKinnon as Holtzmann on Facebook. Elle quickly procured the portrait (which now hangs in their bedroom), spent a Comic Con with Dextra, and asked their brilliant friend to come on the podcast with the hopes that she would share the story of her grandpa and Captain America. She lovingly obliged. In this far-ranging conversation, Elle and Dextra share how their art has been impacted by grief, their sometimes goofy strategies for breaking out of the tunnel vision of ADHD-driven creative activities, so they remember to do things like eat and stretch, and as many things as their ADHD can fit into a meandering 45 minute episode.

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Become a Patron:

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

merry christmas, I guess.

Season 2 · Episode 7

mardi 26 décembre 2023 • Duration 41:58

Content Note: this episode contains some swears and discusses the occupation of Palestine

Hoorf! Podcast co-producers Elle Billing and Ricki Cummings sit down for a long winter’s chat over the holidays. On their minds: the season of Advent, the occupation of Palestine, and their ache for a something better in the world. Join them for the final episode of 2023 as they light a candle against the dark and ponder the why of our winter rituals.

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hoorfpodcast/membership

Become a Patron:

Connect with Elle Billing:

Website: www.hoorfpodcast.com / www.elleandwink.com
Instagram: instagram.com/hoorfpodcast

creative industry and unscheduled grief, with Nick Josten

Season 2 · Episode 6

lundi 11 décembre 2023 • Duration 49:18

Content Note: discussions of parental illness and death; mention of su* ideation, discussion of depression and alcohol abuse.

Our host Elle and this episode’s guest Nick Josten have known each other since sharing the improv stage in university. Since that time, Nick has lived in Japan, performed stand-up in Reno, and co-starred in an independent film. During their conversation, he and Elle agree that the one thing they were never prepared to face as adults was becoming caregivers for their aging parents. Engaging with their parents’ mortality has forced both of them to confront a whole slurry of emotions; Nick shares how he has used creative practices — acting and writing — to alchemize his grief into tangible projects that can resonate with others.

Nick and Elle recorded this conversation in late September. We here at Hoorf extend our condolences to the Josten family, as Nick’s father passed from cancer in the days preceding the release of this episode. May his memory be a blessing to all who knew him.

Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capitalist Heckscape wherever you listen to your favorite podcast: