Nerdacious Behavior

In this Episode, Yvette asked OG Santana to come back for a special New Decade Episode! 

But she said no.  So instead, Yvette subjects Poor Man's Santana to ideas she's been working on all day about how to choose a new, better, different life (and on a related note, self) in the upcoming decade.  Since Yvette has ADD, she starts in the middle (take inventory of who you are and what makes you stronger/weaker), circles back to what should have been the beginning (define the kind of year and decade you want to manifest), lets PMS derail her with dream analysis and finally ties it all together (except maybe that dream stuff) with step 3, create a new, better, faster, stronger, 2007 Kanye normal. 

In this episode Autumn and Yvette interview the Host of Bourbon and Burlesque, Chris Thomas. In what was supposed to be an episode about sexy things like burlesque, Yvette gets distracted pretty early on and derails the three of them into exploring how Chris accidentally stumbled onto sobriety after a rough night out.  Specifically, Chris shares what his choose your own recovery process looked like (diet, exercise, attainable goals) and the unexpected gifts of his sobriety (grad school, career, hobbies).   After exploring recovery, the trio stays on track momentarily while Chris talks about his experience as burlesque host and Yvette tells Chris why he should do standup. Then things get weird as the topic of polyamory turns into them talking for an oddly long time about sperm competition and how women can accidentally giving birth to their partner's clone. 

Where you can follow Bourbon and Burlesque: 

Dec 7th show:  https://bourbonandburlesque.ticketleap.com/bourbon-in-a-burlesque-wonderland/ 

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/bourbonandburlesque/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARAKGyOC9TuxUkKXbB71-xsvwBwPQZyAi1seijylQGfjv-ZRyEWjWqBhoW9CduXQPm1Lwe43yoiXVKKV 

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bourbonandburlesque/?hl=en Unrelated, how you can give birth to your husband's clone: https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/shes-twin/story?id=2315693

This week Autumn and Yvette spend most of the time talking about the importance of maintaining self-love basics, especially when the chips are down. They also discuss their self love practices and the counterintuitive relationship between self-love and selfishness -plus a bunch of other psychobabble.

Yvette gets to write these episode notes so naturally, in this episode, Yvette completely wins the gender pronoun debate.  The verdict: freedom of speech is way more important than the way anyone feels.

They also discuss racism, death, skinsuits, children in cages, their shared crush on John Connor and Paula's affinity for Eddie Furlong.  Yvette's gives a gratitude practice update and Paula finally wraps up her very sad story about kidnap victim Steven Stayner.

For reasons no one can understand, Paula offers to help Yvette navigate the bullshit healthcare system in America.  

PS The word is a "logophile" 🤦🏻‍♀️

RuPaul on the word Tranny: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rupaul-responds-tranny_n_5374897

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

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.

Yvette falls in love with a foot massage and wants to go back to school (again) to learn how to give the world's most expensive (and healing!) foot massage.  Santana welcomes presents, donations sexual advances for Yvette's birthday, which Yvette seems less than open to.  

Santana shares how the art of "not giving a shit" allows her to ride a middle path and recommends the book Buddha's Brain before closing a chapter, dropping some acid and having a profound revelation about sand.  Yvette signs up to volunteer for Bernie Sanders and sets her OkCupid account to London.  For the first time Yvette and Santana agree on men: all of the ones in London are hot and now they want to move.  

Welcome to the first episode of Nerdacious Behavior!  The new podcast where audacious nerds, Santana and Yvette, discuss their pursuit of wellness, mild attempts at dating and other hilarities of adulting.   

In this episode, Santana spends the first half recommending the documentary What the Health (even though it catalyzed a vegan experiment that is making her feel like death) before segueing into her dream career of eating donated shellfish.   

In the second half, for the first time ever, Yvette remembers to tell someone about the nightmare she had before being on Eddie Pepitone's podcast last week and her Neal Brennan inspired Aspergers Syndrome.   

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PS this draft was accidentally published when the podcast was put on the back burner because Yvette was in the hospital. We haven’t listened to it but we hear the audio gets better. On a related note, we’re very open to working with a volunteer producer or sound engineer since we’re just talent and can’t actually do most things.