As someone with multiple disabilities and mental health struggles, I can get irritated with people whose lives are great and who go to therapy for a "tuneup", or to somehow optimize their already secure mental health. (Maybe I wouldn't feel that way if there weren't a mental healthcare shortage.) I feel similarly about people who take a lot of psychedelics just to expand their minds, even though some people I'm close to do that. I don't want to take it away from them, it just rubs me the wrong way to see the intense marketing around it. But I will say, microdosing psilocybin saved my life. I had three separate severe mental health flareups at the same time last year and was not at all safe, and the psilocybin (which is decriminalized where I live) cut through all of them in a way that antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds never did. It really makes it easier to deal with PTSD and overstimulation by my environment, which ultimately makes it easier to be compassionate with people instead of defensive, which I have always struggled with.
The diarrhea plane discussion was hilarious. I’m not a bathroom humor fan either but I could have listened to your commentary on that situation all day lol
I'm listening to this on Substack, but usually do on Luminary. Is there a reason it wasn't published there yet? I'm happy to listen here if that's better for y'all, but there's no rewind/FF function.
Hi Claire! I apologize you’re having technical issues, it’s published everywhere folks get podcasts. Can you illuminate on your technical issue more? I can then try to find some support on what is going wrong on your end. Thank you.
Ok, strange, because I visited that link but I don't see any way to report an issue. I see the newest episode showing up in about every other player that came up on Google (pod bean, amazon, iTunes, etc...) so it HAS to be in the website's side of things, because our RSS feed seems intact. Maybe adding the RSS feed directly into the player you use could help? It is in the drop down menu next to the episode. :(
I'm just happy it isn't just me. Most be something wrong for them. Thank you so much for taking a look. I did listen here and laughed out loud often, so THANK YOU!
Hi Laura Lee! Would you mind emailing me your contact information, and I’ll be in touch with how it works? Please send to stayfhomekins@gmail.com, you’ll immediately get the notice that we’ve moved to Substack, but I’ll grab your contact info and go from there. Thank you for your interest and support!
I am FINALLY listening to this at lunch today! Thought I'd mix it up and leave a comment BEFORE I've listened instead of after. I am sure I'm going to enjoy this!
Sorry, I have to stop writing on my desktop, shit looks CRAZY dense on a phone. I over explained my case. I’m so worried that I offended.
TL;DR of previous comment:
Throwing milk on a (protected) piece of famous art to protest our inaction about the Climate Crisis is a Dadaist act that reflects the absurdity and helplessness that most people feel about being a participant in our biospheric destruction. Especially the kids that are doing it, as they have to be the ones who survive it.
Oh jeese, was not offended! Different action modalities are welcome, I love freedom of expression. In an earlier response I had acknowledged positively that it felt successful for an earlier poster, and I feel compelled to here. It is wonderful you see it as something powerful for yourself and in NO way was I intending my own voiced cynicism to take away from your joy over the action. Perhaps it’s just landing as nihilistic preaching to the choir to some folks, and I apologize for not speaking my opinion more sensitively. It is heartening those pranks are resonating so deeply with a few on here, and it’s refreshing to see a different tenor to the online chatter. I’ll say again, I vote for climate progress and am disheartened when it’s not tackled. Being frustrated by the enormity of the issue is something I experience with constancy and never want to be a distraction to caring about it. My opinion is not about the VERY REAL and concerning climate crisis but are different feelings not worth clarifying or defending and happy to keep them internal moving forward.
_Ruston_ Mire was a local rock band in the early aughts (I believe named after a Tacoma geographic area, but I dunno).
Philomena _Cunk_ is Diane Morgan character. (Cunk on Earth)
More importantly- I was pleased as punch to hear Paul on Cuddle Club this week. I'm a fan of Lou Sanders and pleasantly surprised to know she's a regular listener of CBB. It was a real delight- I only wish the episode was a bit longer.
The art protests never actually deface the art. They throw soup or glue thinks to the plexi glass over the art. In each of those cases the exhibit was open in a couple of hours. They wanted to show how the story of their arrest was the only time the news will discuss this want to end fossil fuels.
Do you feel it accomplished making climate crisis an urgent topic in this media landscape? It’s ok if you feel that mission was successful, I am inspired by creative protest, when it resonates. For me, it feels disjointed and not necessarily educational or targeted, that said, I can have my mind changed with data and results, that may be yet seen.
To me it did resonate. In that the news spent more time talking about a piece of art that was not damaged and continued to ignore the message that the world is being irrevocably being damaged. They denounce an act that didn’t actually harm anything while ignoring the harm being done. That’s when it started making sense to me. They are not just protesting fossil fuels. They are putting on display the hypocrisy of the corporate and state owned news agencies that are complicit in the environments demise. I have a kid in college ( penn state for Paul.) and another who is a senior. I would like them to be able to live into adulthood and have a world to live on.
If it converted one believer in climate crisis, I can acknowledge that as worthy. I long for conversions of those who contribute the most monumental devastating impact, as well. I don’t know why imagining minimum wage workers cleaning up soup irked me so much and seeing online discourse over it felt distracting to me. Probably projecting my own nightmare onto the situation. I believe in the climate crisis, too, so it’s me sitting on that side of believe projecting my own baggage and judgment. I suppose there are deniers that need coaxing into this reality, and maybe those news stories do that trick and goddess bless, if so🙏🏼!
I hope that there will always be people who are willing to inconvenience or embarrass themselves to make a point to the world. Keep the topic of environmental protection in the zeitgeist. As long as we are collectively not doing anything, we need somebody reminding us something needs to be done. Normals with no "power" can still vote . Vote out ineffectual politicians, vote in people who share their concerns and who are at least willing to try to make change.
I was in the audience—it was epic. Not just the joke, but the fact that *the correct instrumentation* was present! I know I wouldn’t have laughed quite as long and hard if it had been a piano and trumpet or a string quartet! The stars aligned and Paul recognized and seized that moment!!
As someone with multiple disabilities and mental health struggles, I can get irritated with people whose lives are great and who go to therapy for a "tuneup", or to somehow optimize their already secure mental health. (Maybe I wouldn't feel that way if there weren't a mental healthcare shortage.) I feel similarly about people who take a lot of psychedelics just to expand their minds, even though some people I'm close to do that. I don't want to take it away from them, it just rubs me the wrong way to see the intense marketing around it. But I will say, microdosing psilocybin saved my life. I had three separate severe mental health flareups at the same time last year and was not at all safe, and the psilocybin (which is decriminalized where I live) cut through all of them in a way that antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds never did. It really makes it easier to deal with PTSD and overstimulation by my environment, which ultimately makes it easier to be compassionate with people instead of defensive, which I have always struggled with.
Wishing you health, compassion and peace. Thank you for sharing your positive experience with this treatment modality. 🧡
The diarrhea plane discussion was hilarious. I’m not a bathroom humor fan either but I could have listened to your commentary on that situation all day lol
I'm listening to this on Substack, but usually do on Luminary. Is there a reason it wasn't published there yet? I'm happy to listen here if that's better for y'all, but there's no rewind/FF function.
Hi Claire! I apologize you’re having technical issues, it’s published everywhere folks get podcasts. Can you illuminate on your technical issue more? I can then try to find some support on what is going wrong on your end. Thank you.
I'm currently in Spain, so maybe there's some IP block.
That's really kind, Janie. I use Luminary and the most recent episode is from August 12. I can't do a screenshot, but here's a link to the desktop: https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/janie-haddad-tompkins-and-paul-f-tompkins/stay-f-homekins-with-janie-haddad-tompkins-and-paul-f-tompkins/890d0d7a-41c8-4e05-94c7-b3093b74e6e9
Ok, strange, because I visited that link but I don't see any way to report an issue. I see the newest episode showing up in about every other player that came up on Google (pod bean, amazon, iTunes, etc...) so it HAS to be in the website's side of things, because our RSS feed seems intact. Maybe adding the RSS feed directly into the player you use could help? It is in the drop down menu next to the episode. :(
I'm just happy it isn't just me. Most be something wrong for them. Thank you so much for taking a look. I did listen here and laughed out loud often, so THANK YOU!
Thank you! Laughing out loud is WONDERFUL! ☺️
When you’re folding out your tray and you feel something spray? The real Nightmare at 20000 Feet!
Great coverage of a day which will live in infamy.
Hi Janie! How do I advertise on the podcast?
Hi Laura Lee! Would you mind emailing me your contact information, and I’ll be in touch with how it works? Please send to stayfhomekins@gmail.com, you’ll immediately get the notice that we’ve moved to Substack, but I’ll grab your contact info and go from there. Thank you for your interest and support!
Update: This episode DELIVERED
lol, thank you! It was a fun one.
I am FINALLY listening to this at lunch today! Thought I'd mix it up and leave a comment BEFORE I've listened instead of after. I am sure I'm going to enjoy this!
Exciting!! 😂😂 THANK YOU
Sorry, I have to stop writing on my desktop, shit looks CRAZY dense on a phone. I over explained my case. I’m so worried that I offended.
TL;DR of previous comment:
Throwing milk on a (protected) piece of famous art to protest our inaction about the Climate Crisis is a Dadaist act that reflects the absurdity and helplessness that most people feel about being a participant in our biospheric destruction. Especially the kids that are doing it, as they have to be the ones who survive it.
Love you!
Oh jeese, was not offended! Different action modalities are welcome, I love freedom of expression. In an earlier response I had acknowledged positively that it felt successful for an earlier poster, and I feel compelled to here. It is wonderful you see it as something powerful for yourself and in NO way was I intending my own voiced cynicism to take away from your joy over the action. Perhaps it’s just landing as nihilistic preaching to the choir to some folks, and I apologize for not speaking my opinion more sensitively. It is heartening those pranks are resonating so deeply with a few on here, and it’s refreshing to see a different tenor to the online chatter. I’ll say again, I vote for climate progress and am disheartened when it’s not tackled. Being frustrated by the enormity of the issue is something I experience with constancy and never want to be a distraction to caring about it. My opinion is not about the VERY REAL and concerning climate crisis but are different feelings not worth clarifying or defending and happy to keep them internal moving forward.
https://youtu.be/Hh1ammLtbGc?si=NXZRiwFVg7pngl0o
Dang it, we'll be in Charleston the weekend before Paul's show and just miss it! 😭
Awwwww. Enjoy Charleston!
Fun facts:
_Ruston_ Mire was a local rock band in the early aughts (I believe named after a Tacoma geographic area, but I dunno).
Philomena _Cunk_ is Diane Morgan character. (Cunk on Earth)
More importantly- I was pleased as punch to hear Paul on Cuddle Club this week. I'm a fan of Lou Sanders and pleasantly surprised to know she's a regular listener of CBB. It was a real delight- I only wish the episode was a bit longer.
Such a great episode, y’all! I swear I heard Janie say “media sh*tstorm.” 🤣
Rusty Kuntz https://g.co/
The next True Detective
Omg. I’m dying. The Billy Elliot of plane shitting. I’m crying laughing. Thank you!❤️
The art protests never actually deface the art. They throw soup or glue thinks to the plexi glass over the art. In each of those cases the exhibit was open in a couple of hours. They wanted to show how the story of their arrest was the only time the news will discuss this want to end fossil fuels.
Do you feel it accomplished making climate crisis an urgent topic in this media landscape? It’s ok if you feel that mission was successful, I am inspired by creative protest, when it resonates. For me, it feels disjointed and not necessarily educational or targeted, that said, I can have my mind changed with data and results, that may be yet seen.
To me it did resonate. In that the news spent more time talking about a piece of art that was not damaged and continued to ignore the message that the world is being irrevocably being damaged. They denounce an act that didn’t actually harm anything while ignoring the harm being done. That’s when it started making sense to me. They are not just protesting fossil fuels. They are putting on display the hypocrisy of the corporate and state owned news agencies that are complicit in the environments demise. I have a kid in college ( penn state for Paul.) and another who is a senior. I would like them to be able to live into adulthood and have a world to live on.
If it converted one believer in climate crisis, I can acknowledge that as worthy. I long for conversions of those who contribute the most monumental devastating impact, as well. I don’t know why imagining minimum wage workers cleaning up soup irked me so much and seeing online discourse over it felt distracting to me. Probably projecting my own nightmare onto the situation. I believe in the climate crisis, too, so it’s me sitting on that side of believe projecting my own baggage and judgment. I suppose there are deniers that need coaxing into this reality, and maybe those news stories do that trick and goddess bless, if so🙏🏼!
I hope that there will always be people who are willing to inconvenience or embarrass themselves to make a point to the world. Keep the topic of environmental protection in the zeitgeist. As long as we are collectively not doing anything, we need somebody reminding us something needs to be done. Normals with no "power" can still vote . Vote out ineffectual politicians, vote in people who share their concerns and who are at least willing to try to make change.
I laughed at the Bob Barker bit, just from hearing you describe it.
I was in the audience—it was epic. Not just the joke, but the fact that *the correct instrumentation* was present! I know I wouldn’t have laughed quite as long and hard if it had been a piano and trumpet or a string quartet! The stars aligned and Paul recognized and seized that moment!!