Latest Tourettesyndrome Podcast Episodes
S6 - Episode 1 - A Feature, Not a Bug (With the Podfather, Adam Curry)
Tourette's Podcast - October 09, 2020 04:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsSeason 6 picks up right where Season 5 left off, and we'll leave it to Adam Curry to explain the how and why. Yep, that Adam Curry, the former MTV VJ these days known far and wide as the Podfather, a title that's followed him around since one of his inventions -- podcasting -- started to catch o...
S6 - Episode 0 - Let's Gala
Tourette's Podcast - October 09, 2020 04:52 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsSome catchup, your feedback, a shredded voice, and a request to join me (in virtual fashion) at a big event coming up --https://tourette.org/get-involved/gala -- as we kick off Season 6 of Tourette's Podcast, which opens with a GREAT guest, Adam Curry, the Podfather.
S5 FINALE - Episode 16 - One Piece of Ice Remaining
Tourette's Podcast - August 01, 2020 00:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsUnbelievable. It's the FINALE of Season 5. But we go out the right way -- raising a glass with a special guest, Aidy Smith, who you know from the great docu-series The Three Drinkers on Amazon Prime. We talk about Aidy's background developing a world-class knowledge of wine and spirits and where...
S5 - Episode 15 - Wake Yourself Up With a Nice Scream
Tourette's Podcast - July 24, 2020 20:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsWe know sleep evades the "average" Touretter, but answer this, whoever you are: How do you typically start your day? Do you protest with the ol' "I just wanna keep sleeeeeping" or "I can't do this today"? Or do you do what Ellis Pascal does -- waking up exclaiming and jolting into the day -- ? E...
S5 - Episode 14 - Individual Thing
Tourette's Podcast - July 17, 2020 17:39 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsNew studio; new guest, and one many of you said you were excited to hear: Brian Lane. He's one of Tourette's best, working as an educator who, partly via TS, ends up being the perfect kind of person to lead a class and relate to what his students go through. He even helped one find a Tourette di...
S5 - Episode 13 - Screaming, Which is Fun
Tourette's Podcast - July 11, 2020 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsAttack of the teens continues! This week: Hara, who brings us a maximally convivial and poignant conversation about the funny and not-as-much moments of being a teenager with Tourette Syndrome. But there's a lot more to it -- ethnic backstories, family dynamics, queerness and intersectionality. ...
S5 - Episode 12 - Sizzling Brain
Tourette's Podcast - July 03, 2020 20:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsYou asked for it -- more teenage voices on Tourette's Podcast. Shylah, known around the web as Simply Tourettes, represents that voice dang well, and candidly so. She opens up, smartly dissects the struggles of reckoning with a perceived-to-be-weird thing like Tourette Syndrome at her age of 13,...
S5 - Episode 11 - You Just Have to Network
Tourette's Podcast - June 26, 2020 19:33 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsWe're nearly to the end of June, and in turn near the end of Pride Month, which has celebrated and boosted awareness for the LGBTQ+ community. Obviously these celebrations (need to) continue beyond a single month, and Tourette's Podcast is always there for it. The Tourette Association of America...
S5 - Episode 10 - You Are Your Own Normal
Tourette's Podcast - June 19, 2020 20:52 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsRinada is a prime example of a hero parent cutting through the red tape to get her son the world he needs while also giving him the room to live it his own way. As a woman of color, she also underlines the importance of storytelling, because when you don't see yourself in the everyday conversati...
S5 - Episode 9 - The Tics of the Politics
Tourette's Podcast - June 13, 2020 20:32 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsThe interview you're about to hear was recorded before the George Floyd news story and the subsequent demonstrations across the country. But it gets into some of the points that have been brought up with regard to the lack of certain life experiences in politics, or in government, or leadership ...
S5 - Black Lives Matter
Tourette's Podcast - June 05, 2020 01:55 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsI posted this in the Tourette’s Podcast Discussion Group earlier and figured I should here too — It's been a long day here, but I wanted to say something: If there's one thing the Tourette community knows, it's how to be empathetic and appreciate the stories of wrongly treated populations. C...
S5 - Episode 8 - Now's The Time
Tourette's Podcast - May 29, 2020 03:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsAmanda Talty is back! The president and CEO of the Tourette Association of America talks ways to maximize Tourette Awareness Month, what's happening in the world that hopefully leads to an easier time discussing mental health, what happened at the recent TAA Virtual Conference, and what TAA's pr...
S5 - Episode 7 - Tourette Together
Tourette's Podcast - May 22, 2020 20:58 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsDr. Christine Conelea is a star in the Tourette research field (and an important support beam for Tourette's Podcast in the process). She has an fun energy for tackling TS research questions, but isn't content letting the results of her work (or anyone else's) sit quietly in the vaults. Instead,...
S5 - Episode 6 - Bryson's Discipline
Tourette's Podcast - May 15, 2020 04:22 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsWhen Kyle was growing up, he experienced the very torment so many Touretters can relate to -- being bullied, being punished for tics, a lack of empathy within the family, et cetera -- and in turn vented angrily to the people around him. Once he noticed his young son, Bryson, was clearly displayi...
S5 - Episode 5 -Marijuana, Anxiety, Science and You
Tourette's Podcast - May 08, 2020 20:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsA different kind of episode this week. After hearing from Touretters on the Tourette's Podcast Answering Machine, we talk Tourette science and medicine with one of the best -- Dr. John Walkup, Chair of the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Child...
S5 - Episode 4 - Cliche Farm
Tourette's Podcast - May 02, 2020 22:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsWhen Ben was in the hospital (as talked about on Episode 0 of this season), one of the things that got him through was a book called "Twist and Shout: An Awkward Life With Tourettes." The author, Tyler Oberheu, had loaded it with stuff to laugh or nod over. On every page. Snarky angles. Oddities...
S5 - Episode 3 - So Seen
Tourette's Podcast - April 24, 2020 03:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsMatt Sawyer AKA noMad is a rapper from St. Paul, Minnesota who hadn't put much thought into writing anything about Tourette Syndrome until his producer told him to. Seems like it would be a challenge to condense a life of experience with TS, associated school-ground ridicule and personal healing...
S5 - Episode 2 - Good Luck
Tourette's Podcast - April 17, 2020 03:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsDaisy is a solid mom. She didn't let all the Tourette-flattening forces of the world set the course for her 8-year-old son, Angel, who was diagnosed with TS about a year ago. Even the diagnosis was a migraine, coming with some odd advice about what the world would be like for Angel. Daisy shut i...
S5 - Episode 1 - Don't Hold Back
Tourette's Podcast - April 10, 2020 04:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsLewis Rossignol is a widely known and followed artist who makes his entire living off of his work, often on commissions, and has Tourette Syndrome at the core of it. Art was his way. On this episode, Lewis discusses what's behind his work, why Tourette is so connected to it, his decision to make...
S5 - Episode 0 - I Checked Myself In
Tourette's Podcast - April 10, 2020 04:32 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsBen starts Season 5 by opening way up about his recent experience in the hospital and how it was the best thing that ever happened to him. (And also check out Episode 1, released the same time as this one). Thanks to the Tourette Association of America for making this podcast possible. https:...
S4 - Episode 16 - Porch Swing
Tourette's Podcast - January 17, 2020 21:53 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsUnbelievably, we're at the season finale! This episode looks at big takeaways from Season 4 (so much unforgettable stuff) before a close-out conversation with Haley from Alabama, U.S. She didn't receive a Tourette Syndrome diagnosis until she was 18, but all along "I pretty much knew I was diffe...
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Straightjacket Routine
Tourette's Podcast - January 11, 2020 00:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsGiveaway winners! Touretters on "Motherless Brooklyn"! And magic! Really! We're joined this week by professional magician Jason Michaels, who has Tourette Syndrome. And I know what you're wondering: How does one master sleight of hand with body tics? Is anxiety a factor on stage? And how does on...
S4 - Episode 14 - Tourettistan is a Very Big Place
Tourette's Podcast - January 03, 2020 05:57 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsWe're joined by a high-ranking federal official in the States who has LOTS of wisdom on running a diverse and appreciated workplace, and how Tourette Syndrome has given him, if anything, advantages to that end. He's also got a great story about his first awareness of Tourette. PLUS: Giveaway win...
S4- Episode 13 - If I Throw Hydrochloric Acid
Tourette's Podcast - December 30, 2019 05:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsOccasionally a listener asks what we've done on tic disorders OTHER than Tourette Syndrome. And the answer is: not much. Until now. Rachel has chronic motor tic disorder and, as you might expect, stories familiar to any Touretter and probably eye-opening to anyone unfamiliar. But she, and many o...
S4 - Episode 12 - Nine Hours
Tourette's Podcast - December 20, 2019 17:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings1. Yuki is strong, and you'll agree after hearing what has to be the foremost tic story ever told on this podcast. She deals with coprolalia, paralysis tics and other pressures to stay ahead of. Saying it again -- she's strong. Have a listen. 2. It's time for an amazingly cool giveaway! Detail...
S4 - Episode 11 - Tourette's Cop
Tourette's Podcast - December 13, 2019 13:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsIt's #TourettesCop day on the podcast! We've got him, among our most in-demand guests, and it's great. What's it like to be a police officer with Tourette Syndrome? Answers ahead. Also: weighing in on Nick Cannon's "Tourette's" lyric and a followup on the Treating Tourette Together Summit, with ...
S4 - Episode 10 - What's Wrong for the Spider
Tourette's Podcast - December 06, 2019 16:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsFirst thing -- we have a winner to our pop-quiz question! And he has a special message. And then we get to Daphne, our guest this week who has a lot to say about creativity as an artist and identity as a trans woman, all of it fitting into the Tourette context with important takeaways for anyone...
S4 - Episode 9 - Since Having This Time Off
Tourette's Podcast - November 28, 2019 22:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsRejuvenated after a little break, we're back, this time with Jason from Australia. He knows the value of a good break from the grind to sort out one's head, and we get into that (and how difficult it can be, too). Jason, professionally, is a diversity and inclusion specialist in sports and event...
BRB!
Tourette's Podcast - November 22, 2019 01:06 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsHey folks! Quick mental-health week. That is to say it's a one-week break, and then right back to standard next week with another fantastic longform episode. Gotta address life's priorities. Let's talk in the meantime, though -- [email protected]. Thanks, everyone! --Ben
S4 - Episode 8 - Roma Tomato
Tourette's Podcast - November 15, 2019 03:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsHave you ever wondered what goes through the mind of a racecar driver? With Tourette Syndrome? Our guest Esther Quaintmere, who has awesomely displayed the Tourette's Podcast logo on her racecar and is herself a Touretter, sheds light. And "fake tourettes?" Also: More reactions to Motherless Bro...
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