Ramble by the River

Cindy Guzman visits the crab shed to talk about her life and the lessons that she has learned along the way. We covered her childhood in a rural Pacific Northwest town, her move to Mexico during her teen years, and her return the the foggy coast of Washington with a new perspective. Cindy is wise beyond her years and has many useful pieces of insight that can help anyone to live a more fulfilling life. She talks about the contrast between Mexico and the United States and suggests a few ways that the two cultures could benefit from trying to be a bit more like the other.

It is obvious that Cindy has a deep love for her home and the people who live around her. She talks a lot about community building, altruism, and kindness. It was nice to be reminded that sometimes life can be simple if we let it be. Sometimes what really matters is just making sure everyone around is okay for now, and we can worry about everything else when we have no other choice. Cindy will help you to see that your life is actually pretty good and maybe looking at it from a different angle can help to make that clear.

Thank you so much for being a listener!

I love you guys!

Topics/Keywords:

Taking chances; rejection; fear; work-ethic; marriage; Caesar Encinas; dating; match-making; dealing with loss; losing friends; Mexican culture; Hispanic communities; racism; Mexico; drug cartels; tradition; cultural appropriation; moms; bystander effect; divorce; broken families; mixed families; cultural anger; the evil eye; the law of attraction; karma; tomato farming; child labor; Mexican food; border crossing; legal immigration; illegal immigration; corrupt government; cultural assimilation; great American melting pot; English as a second language; raising a big family; extended family; multigenerational living; burritos; spending money; financial responsibility; community service; altruism; inclusion; human sameness preference; old white people; tamales; Mexican food; Pacific County Washington; population demographics; ancestry.com; 23andMe.com; genealogy; dialects; Mayan calendar; Chinook Indian Nation; ethnic cleansing; Native American Church; Peyote religion; Jalisco; tequila; gender roles; technology; screen time; unstructured free-play; boredom; poverty; perspective; gratitude; mental health; mental illness; stigma; homosexuality; secondary education; CJ Hawkinson; Ford Electric; Catholic Church; piñata; paper maché; Highland games; NFTs; Non-fungible tokens; emotional regulation; trauma;

Links:

During the show we mention the passing of our dear friend, Cesar Encinas. Here is the link to the GoFundMe page where you can make a donation to help his family cover medical expenses and funeral costs. Thank you. GoFundMe for Cesar Encinas funeral costs and family support:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-the-loss-of-our-loved-one?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

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In this episode of Ramble by the River, Cody Chalker stops by the crab shed to catch up with Jeff about life. He showed up early and guys start off talking about work, school, and what's cool on TikTok while Jeff finishes setting up the recording equipment. Our interview is cut short when an unexpected attack occurs just outside the studio and Cody has to leave early to take care of an issue that could not be ignored.

In the latter half of the episode, Jeff explains what happened all of the commotion was about, and we get a few teaser clips from the next few episodes coming out over the next month.

This week's episode is a good reminder that we can always work on remaining flexible and adaptive. We never know what random obstacles are going to present themselves and we have to be prepared to make changes on the fly. This episode almost didn't happen. It would have been easy to justify taking the week off after the chaos, but I decided to make something out of it anyway and I am so glad I did. I actually like the way this one turned out in the end and someday it will be a funny memory.

Thank you for being a part of the Ram fam. I appreciate your time and support more than you will ever know.

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Topics/Keywords:

Tik-Tok; golden retrievers; Instagram; Tinder; online dating; electrical wiring; working on the weekends; male-pattern baldness; receding hairline; gray hair; Visine; cannabis; Apple computers; MacOS; Google; WebMD; cancer; dogs; chickens; End of the World Rod Run; Beach Barons; Patriot’s Day; Tom Brady; FTX; Giselle Bundchen; dogs; chickens.

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Music Credit(s):

You Know It, Da Sein.

Nothing to be Scared of, Magnus Ringblom.

And Then We Fell From The Sky, Across the Great Valley

The Norman Kings, Bonnie Grace

As the Years Go By, Johannes Bornlof.

Still Fly, Revel Day.

Dr. Kim Patten has been on the top of my must-have guest list since I started Ramble by the River. In the world of aquatic invasive species, Dr. Kim Patten is a rockstar, and somehow, we got him to sit down in the crab-shed to share a few of the secrets of his success. He tells the story of his life; from his humble beginnings as a learning-disabled child on the ski slopes of Mammoth Lakes, California, through his controversial and highly-productive research career at Washington State University, to his recent retirement and the transition into grandparenthood and novice rowing.

We talked about the huge impact that Dr. Patten has had on the Willapa Bay, local politics, and in my life. After giving me my first job in natural resources in 2005, Dr. Patten has been a mentor, a role model and my most-trusted advisor ever since. I owe my career to him and he has contributed so much to my view of what a good man should be like. I love him and I think you will too.

Thank you for listening!

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Topics/Keywords:

Kombucha; running; Olympic runners; learning disorders; Dyslexia; Dyscalculia; introversion; University of California Berkeley; UC Davis; Washington State University; grand-parenting; Texas A&M; Texas culture; culture shock; Arcata, CA; Portland, OR; homelessness; charitable giving; Climate Change; ecology; wildfires; sociology; Bill Gates; Covid-19; Spartina; Willapa Bay; WSU extension; Monsanto; Bayer; glyphosate; Sen. Sid Snyder; land-grant universities; aquatic weed management, cranberries; cranberry farming; Willapa National Wildlife Refuge; The Nature Conservancy; Olympic National Resource Center; plant morphology; invasive species; Western Fly-way; burrowing shrimp; ghost shrimp; carbaryl; cost/benefit analysis; caffeine; Washington State Department of Agriculture; rowing; sculling; 3D printing; Leadbetter Point State Park; gorse; Ulex Europeaus; fire; New Zeland; Bray Head; Bandon, Oregon; Goat Rocks; Mt. Rainier; wildflowers; bees; native bees; bombas melanopygus; bombas mixtus; mushrooms; boletus; golden chanterelles; Indian heavens wilderness; king boletes; boletus edulus; rabbit road; dopamine; Columbia Land Trust; Jug Lake; Gifford Pinchot National Forest; Patreon.com; Harvard longevity study; friendship; telomeres; Blue Zones; machismo; pickle ball; tendonitis; Platelet-rich plasma (PRP); stem cells; healing; physical-therapy; collagen; mitochondria; risk-perception; confirmation bias; unconscious mind; fallacies of logic; statistics; SAS, SPSS; Microsoft Excel; statistics; probability; String theory; quantum gravity; multiverse; Schrödinger’s cat; Seasonal Affective Disorder; sun exposure; skin cancer; melanoma; glyphosate; Round up; The Home Depot; gut; microbiome; fecal colony transplant; 23andMe; genetics; Alzheimer’s Disease; Parkinson’s Disease; free will.

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Devannon Hubert is the host of Sex, Drugs, and Jesus, a podcast that highlights taboo concepts and the people that enjoy them. He joined me on Ramble by the River to discuss his life as a gay man, his experience of being excommunicated from his church, his time in the military, his rise to prominence in the black-market drug trade; his HIV diagnosis; and his eventual arrest by SWAT team. We covered a lot of ground over two hours and kept coming back to ideas about how to practice acceptance and tolerance in a world that sometimes feels so hostile and unforgiving that selfless love feels impossible.

We covered hypnosis, drug abuse, religion, romance, social manipulation, oppression, hate, love, and podcasting. Devannon brings his irreverent and hilarious sense of humor to these heavy topics and the result is something magical.

I really like this episode. I think it shows how two people can appear to be quite different on the surface, but deep down we all share so much in common. I had a great time making this thing and I hope you enjoy listening to it.

If you want to support the show...

Go to the all new Ramble by the River Patreon.

Thank you so much for being part of the Ram-fam,

Jeff

Topics/Keywords:

podcasting; starting a podcast; Podmatch.com; Alex Sanfilipo; matchmaker.fm; Descript.com; audio editing, audio production; podcast community building; church; LBGTQ; children’s church; community service; volunteering to serve; gay-affirming church; The Golden Compass; Nicole Kidman; The Matrix; mass-deception; hypnotherapy; stage hypnosis; highly-suggest-able state; critical thought; executive control; willful suspension of disbelief; personality types; LSD-assisted hypnotherapy; psilocybin; Triumph of the Will; Adolf Hitler; Hitler Youth; propaganda; evangelical church; evangelists; Don’t Ask Don’t Tell; gay in the military; The Village People; homosexuality conversion; conversion therapy; gold-star gay; dreams; dreaming; dream-interpretation; Sigmund Freud; dream symbols; prophetic dreams; supernatural abilities; premonitions, deja vu; collective unconscious; Carl G. Jung; Buddhists; religious diversity; philosophical autonomy; drunkenness; sobriety; abstinence; wine; alcohol; addiction; Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs; environmental correlates of addiction; Dr. Carl Hart; Columbia University; Drug Use For Grown-ups; relapse; harm-reduction strategy; Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous; heroin injection sites; needle exchange; morality; psychoactive substances; methamphetamine; cocaine; sugar; Christianity; Jesus Christ; free will; women’s right to choose; abortion; The Bible; Love; apostle Paul; House of Cards; Book of Acts; Joel Olstein, Joyce Meyers; John the Baptist, social isolation; idolatry; wealth; Sex, Drugs, and Jesus: A memoir of Self-destruction and Resurrection; HIV; AIDS; Hepatitis B; drug dealers; selling meth; trauma; PTSD; SWAT; Houston, TX; trap house; bug chasers; HIV treatments; Truvada; Magic Johnson; Mary J. Blige; Chik-fil-A; Donald J. Trump.

Guest Links:

Devannon Hubert

-Podcast: Sex, Drugs, and Jesus

-Book (Coming soon): Sex, Drugs, and Jesus: A Memoir of Self-Destruction and Resuection

Connect:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopix

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Mark Ryall, author of Age Decoded, joins me to discuss his new book, his career in education, and we really get into the topic of genetic engineering. Mark talks about his love of teaching and how an unexpected foray into running with his young daughter bloomed into an intensely-competitive triathlon hobby, and how he never quite felt like he fit in at engineering school.

Genetic engineering is a topic that is easy to get lost in. There are so many moral and ethical concerns, and it can be quite difficult to understand in the first place. Mark and I cover many of the ethical issues and offer some attempt to make sense of CRISPR and related technologies.

Mark describes many of the aspects of his book, Age Decoded, and we even get to hear him read a couple lines from the text. Age Decoded is the story of what happens to humanity after we solve the problem of aging and eventually learn how to reverse it. The book is full of excitement, curiosity, and even some romance. It's a fun read and you really learn a lot about the possibilities of the future.

Thanks for tuning in, I hope you enjoy it!

Topics/keywords:

Education; coaching; parenting; running; long-distance running; University of Waterloo; engineering; mathematics; triathlon; physiology; aerobic capacity; David Sinclair; Harvard University; Steven Horvath; UCLA; George Church; diseases of aging; reverse aging; speculative fiction; CRISPR; gene editing; Huntington’s Disease; Imperial College London; nano-robotics; Nobel Prize; Intellia Therapeutics; Schizophrenia; Bi-polar disorder; Icahn Institute Genomics Institute; genetic depression; liver disease; Emmanuelle Charpentier; Jennifer Doudna; chronic pain; clinical depression; Elon Musk; Neural-ink; Brave New World; Aldous Huxley; Françoise Baylis; Altered Inheritance; Dalhousie university; Halifax Nova Scotia; Harvard University Press; telomeres; C.S. Lewis; The Abolition of Man; eugenics; Adolf Hitler; obesity; Eddie Murphy; blindness; robotics; Ray Curtswhile; The Singularity; quantum computing; World Antidoping Agency; DNA; Eugenics; scientific education; WWII; Nazi scientists; blindness; Down’s syndrome; Turing test; 

Links:

Business inquiries/guest booking: [email protected]

Website: Ramblebytheriver.captivate.fm

Facebook: Jeff Nesbitt (Ramble by the River)https://www.facebook.com/jeff.nesbitt.9619

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Twitter: @RambleRiverPod

Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCNiZ9OBYRxF3fJ4XcsDxLeg

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Music Credit(s):

Still Fly, Revel Day.

Computerized Synthesis of Happiness, Oh The City.

An important message from Ramble by the River.

Thanks for listening.

I hope you enjoy.

music credits:

beat: Flowers by Yomoti.