Nerdacious Behavior

This episode starts with Yvette doing a terrible UK bastard accent alone in her room and leads into discussion with her new friend, Paula Stornetta about Paula's childhood baby-sitter, famous kidnap victim, Steven Stayner and her interviews with convicted serial killer, Ed Kemper.   

They also talk about how uber has complicated talking to kids about stranger-danger, how Yvette's mom predicted the non-binary gender movement and why Yvette values free speech more than compelled pronouns even though it makes her a liberal outcast.  

Ed Kemper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper Steven Stayner:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Stayner George Carlin -They're only words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=mUvdXxhLPa8 Dave Chappelle re not wanting to entertain sensitive crowds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_KUPejzaU  

In Part Two of our interview with Aja Nikiya, we dive into Aja's dark side: she takes care of everyone but herself.  On a related note, we explore Aja's health journey, which starts with double jointed tricks, isn't quite marfan syndrome and is starting to get scary.  

Later, Aja and Yvette reminisce over the time Yvette signed up to save animals from burning buildings but ended up hiding from an exhibitionist instead.  Last, Santana gives Yvette nightmares with stories of her job in a sex boutique.  

Aja's philanthropy and film work:

IG: @compassioncurator

www.compassionkind.com

http://linchpinsfilm.com

In this episode, the nerds interview the amazing Aja Nikiya -international philanthropist extraordinaire (and comedy sketch partner of the nerds). 

First, Aja tells us about her experience working with a small team of women to save 1800 animals from the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and her resulting documentary, Linchpins of Dead Dog Island.  Then she’s shares what it was like when Trump threw paper towels at hurricane survivors. Last, Aja talks about her orphanage in Malawi, what it's like to have Malaria, what’s happening the Amazon and why we should boycott Brazil until the Amazon becomes a priority to the practices there.  

You can get involved with the good work that Aja's doing by going down the rabbit hole of links below: 

IG: @compassioncurator

www.compassionkind.com 

http://linchpinsfilm.com

Santana tells Yvette about her new morning ritual, which reminds Yvette of traveling in Puerto Rico and TED Talk where Harvard researcher, Shawn Achor, outlines how to cultivate happiness and why you should do it. Then the two discuss meditation, choices, narratives, positive visualization, non-attachment and how to choose happy.

TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en 

This week, Yvette figures out that you could have been leaving them voice memos all along.  The link is here but if you use it, your message might get played and talked about so be presentable, or at least warned: https://anchor.fm/NerdaciousBehavior/message 

After plugging the message feature, Santana and Yvette discuss types of grandmas and their grandma goals before diving into some of the more personal comments about last week's Frank James interview. The conversation quickly evolves into a discussion about interpretation, self love and why some people are just wrong (or failing to communicate effectively).  Then Santana meets the massage she's not into and the girls stumble into an important conversation about consent (that Yvette wishes was part of a broader cultural conversation about the distinction between consensual and nonconsensual sex).  

PS Follow memes_of_reality on instagram bc he produced our podcast when astrology killed our computer so now he's our favorite.  

Santana and Yvette spend the Fourth of July podcasting and watching Stranger Things.  Santana makes several funny jokes while Yvette goes into nauseating detail about her love of Khenpo lectures.  Then she admits that she doesn't know the significance of the Fourth of July, only to find out that America's birthday is actually the second.  John Adams rolls over in his grave.