Nicepilled

Fellow poster, famous internet stepdad, podcaster, wedding celebrant and all around Most Genial Dude Kristi Yamagucciamane  joins me to chop it up for 2 plus hours on a host of topics, but kicking off with some serious --  and ultimately uplifting -- discussion about foster parenting, mixed families, life during corona, and a host of other things of mutual interest.

You can find Kristi in these various places:
Twitter: @wapplehouse
Podcasts: Jortscenter and Lour after Hours
Bands: Beard of Antlers

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Twitter friend Patty (@mylittlevictory) joins me to talk our respective experiences and strategies dealing with the twin otherworlds of chronic insomnia and anxiety.  We use that as an uplifting springboard to talk about the unique emotional relief of disaster cinema.

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A friend from twitter approached me several months ago with this painful personal story about a close, lifelong friend whose life takes a very dark and destructive turn after becoming redpilled in 2017.

CONTENT WARNING:

This episode recounts trauma and traumatic events -- including death by suicide -- and is not presented for prurient interest.  What I hope you can take away from this is two people working through to a slightly better understanding of what certain types of conflict and trauma have in common and how we deal with it.  

Finally: this story involves QAnon, but what you will quickly learn is that my take here is that Q/MAGA/whatever is incidental to what ultimately happens in this particular instance.   There are much more qualified and experienced people covering this beat and I reference them often.  Listeners curious about these tops should reference the QAA podcast, researchers like Mike Rothschild, Mark Andre Argentino,  and journalists and researchers like Will Sommer and Jared Holt.

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Twitter friend and media guy @tjbreen joins me again to chop it up for an hour and 15.  We check in our CT GOP faves, talk Omicron, QAnon and staring down the barrel of this particular national moment, all while trying to keep our heads on straight. 

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@undefeatedmatt joins me to celebrate the successful launch of the Patreon for the show and for an overall vibe check, then @arden_seriously comes on ostensibly to talk the new Netflix live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop,  but we instead take several turns on Twitter culture, gatekeeping, and some takes on what it means to be Nicepilled.

A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP FOR THE PATREON LAUNCH!

I cannot thank everyone enough for their kindness and enthusiasm for this weird little project.  Everyone gets a shout out in the show open.

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Twitter friend Tom Breen joins me to dish on  a host of topics: the regional media landscape, the peculiar corners of our home state, both IRL and on on Twitter, and a dive on how national politics -- in the particular with an increasingly radicalized GOP -- is filtering down to state level races, municipal elections and town governance.  I also reveal that I was the guy behind @fakejeffbutler.

Tom runs media for UCONN at Storrs, but of course appears here in his own capacity.  You can find him on twitter at @TJBreen

Tom's published work as an author:

Ghost Stories from the End of World
Hymns of Abomination

I have launched a Patreon account for the podcast, which can be found here:

patreon.com/nicepilled

There are 3 tiers of available: $3 for general support, $5 or early access, and $7 for bonus content.  I'm grateful for your support. 

You can find me on twitter:

@edwardodell

Show Twitter Page

@nicepilled_pod

Music: @OrbGazer

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I check in with mutual friend Pete Gibson (@peteymca) to kick off my discussion with @RetvrnOfTheMatt whoabout our relative success/failure at self-administering the Nicepill.  In turn Matt and I find ourselves exploring the issues of mental health as it relates to our respective charity  and volunteer efforts, both present and past.

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Set aside a supplemental dose of insulin to prepare yourself for the irresistible sweetness that is Our Pal: Jake Rockatansky.  Not merely one of the three primary hosts of the immensely popular, listener-supported QAnon critical podcast, but further and perhaps most importantly, a man who will be forever immortalized by the gentle and alluring display of bare feet in Cullen Hoback’s Q: Into the Storm documentary, currently airing on HBO.  Jake also wrote and self-produced a five song music EP dedicated — mostly — to his adorable papilion Teddy.

Jake assented to talking with me for reasons I am yet to fully comprehend, and was characteristically generous with his time and attention. The result is more than two hours of deeply engaging conversation; we talk about the inspiration and production of the Teddy EP, get a bit under the hood with the QAA podcast and marvel over its incredible, vibrant fan community.  Jake is forthcoming about the difficulty in covering conspiracist movements and communities, the challenges and rewards of creative work and most especially the  dissociative nature of watching one’s fringe area of interest suddenly and terribly manifest into worldwide iconography.

Jake on Twitter: @realrockatansky

The Teddy EP

Apple Music | Spotify | Bandcamp

Twitter handles for the hosts: Travis View, Annie Kelley, Liv Agar,  and Julian Feeld.

The podcast also has a website, with links to merchandise, their Pateron page and very active Discord community.  They have an archive of over 300 episodes and currently also host a Twitch Stream on alternate Tuesdays and Thursdays.  You can find the podcast Twitch stream here, along with individual streams for Jake and Julian.

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We're exiting the hellscape to  indulge ourselves in  90s nostalgia after re-screening Michael Rappaport’s 2012 documentary “Beats, Rhymes and Life: the Travels of A Tribe Called Quest” taking a turn to talk about one of the greatest foundational groups in Rap.   OG Nicepiller Bill makes his podcast debut, and Twitter friend lontar rounds out the panel.

This is a deep dive, though perhaps not deep enough given the richness of the material.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy the work of these incredible artists.  Yes, the intro is long; stay with it.

Panel

Bill
@edwardodell
@lontar_on_here

RIP Phife.

Links (compiled by lontar, tysvm for this, so tired rn)

VinRican's ATCQ resource breakdown videos here and here.

Personal Introductions to material we discuss:

ATCQ - Check The Rhime
De La Soul - Me, Myself, and I
ATCQ - Scenario
ATCQ - I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
ATCQ - Bonita Applebum
De La Soul - Eye Know

Discussing the Doc:

Docu Snippet - Story of the Native Tongues
Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres: The Rap Yearbook
Can't Stop Won't Stop - A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
ATCQ - The Love Movement - Full Album Playlist
ATCQ - Can I Kick It? (Official Video)
ATCQ - His Name Is Mutty Ranks

Wrapping Up:

ATCQ - The Space Program 
ATCQ - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

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 I jump on with battle-tested  warrior and Hearst Media columnist Susan Campbell.  She's a significant voice in local media, down to earth and always a good read.

I've been trying to get Susan on for a discussion for a while. We talk adjustments to behavior in the Biden-era social media hellscape, Connecticut Twitter and  state-level politics.  It's a good hour.

Host: @edwardodell
Guest: @campbellsl
Art/Media: @connecticutting
Editorial: @HeathcliffGarf1

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