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In the Season 2 opener, Jane and Yergz discuss the recent Super Bowl, Taylor Swift, Swifties, and Happiness and Swift Haters.

Are you a Taylor Swift fan? Are you a good Christian? The hypocrisy of "love thy neighbor," and the excuses used to hate someone who lives there.

But it's not long before the conversation turns to happiness, or a potential lack thereof. Join Jane and Yergz for Part 1 in a two part series.

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After tweaking some technical issues, Yergz and Jane continue with a quick discussion on the editing process for each episode.

Then they begin the "study" of happiness with David Burns' "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy." There are ten Chapters that they skimmed and will examine further in the future:

All or Nothing Thinking

If you don’t achieve, you’ve failed

“Which is it? Yes, or No?”

Over Generalization

See one event as a never-ending pattern of defeat

Mental Filter

Single negative detail and dwell

Drop of ink discolors the entire beaker

Disqualifying Positive

Reject Positive experience because they don’t count

“Negative Nancy”

Jumping to Conclusions

Negative determination with no info

Mind reading

Presume someone is negative with no cause

Fortune Teller

You just know…

Magnification / Minimization

Exaggerate in one direction or the other

The binocular trick

Seeing things incorrectly

Emotional

Feelings aren’t facts

Should Statements

Should / Shouldn’t

Must / ought

Label / Mislabel

Extreme for of over-exaggeration

Highly colored, emotionally loaded

Personalization

Wrongly see self as cause of negative external event

Additional chapters include:

Practical Application

Build Self esteem

Realistic Depression

Sad v Depressed

Prevention / Personal Growth

Dare to Be Average

Ways to overcome Perfectionism

Defeating Hopelessness & Suicide

Coping w stresses and strains

Chemistry of Mood

Guide to anti-depression and drug therapy

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For the end of our First Season, we matched with the end of the current NFL season, and discuss the "controversy" of what is Taylor Swift, the Kelce brothers, "Dark Joe Biden," and Tucker Carlson's suicidal tendency with a Chief's victory.

This was a perfect segue into our new series of topics for Season Two: Happiness and Suicide.

See you in Season Two!

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After babbling for 30 minutes, Yergz and Jane move into the remaining top episodes of Season 1. As always, they continue to chatter and make for an interesting conversation. Plus, they took last week off from recording, so there was lots to catch up on!

From country music (and Faith Hill, Jane. Tim McGraw's wife is Faith Hill....), to a continued review of Season One, Yergz and Jane talk about the Top Five episodes from the two major platforms: Spotify and YouTube.

Yergz details why the two lists of analytics differ so much. One focuses on video (YouTube) and while Spotify is also a video friendly platform, the other directories that feed off of it are audio only. Yergz then gets into HOW a podcast episode is made and why one episode will do well on YouTube, while another episode does better on Spotify.

Then we get into the "work wives" of Yergz, and his work HUSBAND! Yergz and Jane, both, have been incredibly busy, but not busy enough to forget about others in the community. From "Christmas Songs" like our 9/11 episode, and our BS Detector and how we got a little political, to conversations vs. lesson plans, Jane and Yergz wrap up their first season with political discussions and "magic wands..."

Then a family friend of Yergz and his family, an inspiration to Jane and a community leader, Melanie Roth sits down in the B Inspired Podcast and tells her story about some of life's hurdles. The positive talk on Yergz Radio, and in Both Sides Now keeps Jane and Yergz, and their listeners, going into Season Two.

After a review of our interview with Phil Repko and his feature in The Expression, Jane dropped the newz on Yergz that he missed Joni Mitchell at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

After a quick flashback to VCRs, Tevo, and landline telephones, it's not long before Yergz is talking politics - again! As Jane and Yergz delve into the top episodes, he breaks off into the two recent "crime drama" type podcasts that he just finished: The Whistleblowers, by iHeart Media, hosted by Miles Taylor, formerly of the Department of Homeland Security. This details the life stories of those who tried to stop the Trump Administration from going rogue, and the prices that they paid.

Next, they discuss Who Killed JFK? and some of the things that Yergz already knew. Produced by Rob Reiner ("Meathead" from All in the Family) and Soledad O'Brien (CNN), this podcast confirms what Yergz already suspected, or even knew.

Then, some news gets dropped on Jane! The B Inspired Podcast starts on 99.1 WDJW-FM on Sunday, February 18th at 5pm Eastern! She's made the big time!

Finally, with three minutes left in this part of the episode, we finally discuss the best episodes from Season One on both YouTube and Spotify!

Until Part Two....

Enjoy!

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Part 2 of the interview with Phil Repko. It's a bit political!

In part one of this two-part series, we get a visit from ANOTHER former English teacher to Yergz, Phil Repko. Jane starts with comments on the prose that he wrote for the recent passings of some of Boyertown's greatest. Phil then differentiates between and compares his works in prose versus his more recent poetry.

But only as Yergz can, the conversation turns political. And to Yergz' surprise, Phil isn't the political nemesis that Jane suspected he might be.

This makes for an intelligent conversation, recorded this past Saturday, 2/03/24, in Studio B Art Gallery, Boyertown, Pa.

Jane reads a study, and shares with us, the conditions of Williams Syndrome.

As Yergz and Jane explore the conditions of a Williams Syndrome patient, they both wish that more people loved as unconditionally as the patients do!

As we approach February, we will be ending our first season of Both Sides Now !! Tune in next week as we wrap up Season 1 and give you a bit of a taste of Season 2 !

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Last week, a small production company that works with Yergz Radio received some incredible news - TWICE! Glen "Sportcat" Jackson and everyone at Nite Lite Productions were awarded with the opportunity to transfer their shows, The Para Or Normal Guyz, and Sportcat and the Misfits, over to FM radio! And if that wasn't exciting enough, on Friday they began talks with ANOTHER internet radio station for possible syndication of their new Friday night show, Grin and Guardian Gang.

Have a listen, and find out why that's good for Yergz and everyone at Yergz Radio!

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This episode talked about two separate videos put out by more experienced content creators on what NOT to do. Turns out, we're not doing that bad - for the most part....

Have a look at this video, analyze Both Sides Now with Jane and Yergz, and let's see how you scored us!

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