The Bar is Ankle High

E70: That’s...Stupid

Here's part 3 of our current venture into the 4th Trimester and what that means for your postpartum body, hormones, brain health, and everything else. We will absolutely be revisiting this topic in the future as Garet becomes our resident hormone expert, but over on Patreon, ALL of our Patreon subscribers have gotten access to an extended cut of this episode which we know is already super long but can you believe it is even longer?!
 
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E69: Baby Blues Jazz Lounge

Today we continue our discussion on the 4th Trimester, postpartum depression (PPD) and postpartum anxiety and we actually get into the factual discussions for each of these conditions and what separates them from just "the baby blues." As usual, we get distracted by ourselves and promote Garet's baby to the Owner of Poop Acre Manor - a title that we're pretty sure she's earned at this point because damn that kid can let it fly when she wants to!
 
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E68: More Narrow Than A Chimpanzee

GARET IS BACK! Garet is FINALLY back from her dumb baby vacation and is giving us the low down on post-partum life and hormones. That's right - would it really even be a Garet welcome back episode if we didn't spend it talking about yeeting yourself off a hormone cliff 24 hours after delivering a baby? We also hear a little bit about Katie's new job and getting run over by a bus that tries to suck your nipples off. In the words of Garet's doctor, "That's a really weird bus..." Our cup runneth over with the return of the dynamic duo and the magic we have here on this podcast so we hope you enjoy this episode. 
 
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E67: Conspiracy Trains

This week Jami Fregeau - The Neurodivergent Nurse - takes the lead on researching and tells Katie about how Paul "Buster" Murdaugh - accused murderer who himself was murdered by his own father - had ADHD. We discuss the darker sides and signs of ADHD in teens and young adults including the downfalls of substance abuse, emotional dysregulation, and how white privilege can actually handicap you more than ADHD ever could. It's the last week before Garet comes back from maternity leave and we are SO GRATEFUL that Jami made time for us in her supremely busy schedule to cover this topic for us. Would you like to hear more about ADHD and criminal activities/propensities? If so - tell us on social media on Instagram @thebarisanklehigh. 
 
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E66: Old Timey New Medicine

Once again we are joined by Jami Fregeau, The Neurodivergent Nurse, and this week we are discussing a new study published by Standford University researchers where they managed to isolate specific genes related to, and potentially causing, Autism Spectrum Disorder. We discuss the unique features of human brain development (as opposed to ape or other lab animal brain development) and get into how the researchers were able to narrow things down and see brain cells reach out to each other LIVE in a petrie dish! Katie & Jami also discuss the prevalence of epilepsy in folks who also have ASD, including how partial lobectomy treatment can cure someone of their epilepsy and the ladies discuss how and why that can be a viable treatment. At one point, Katie also mentions her cousin, Henry - if you're interested in learning more about Henry's condition, you can go to www.forhenryAHC.org
 
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Sources: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/05/autism-genes-brain-development/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06564-w

E65: ADHD Did What Now?

This week Katie is joined by the incalculably talented Katie Charlwood, host of the history podcast Who Did What Now?, the history podcast that's NOT your history class. Ms. Charlwood also has ADHD, so the Katies get into discussion on podcasting when the rejection sensitivity and justice sensitivity get to be too much to bear. The ladies delve into the ethics of true crime podcasts as a branch of history podcasting and the importance of getting the names of historical figures correct and not changing names so they're easier or more comfortable for you to say - looking at you Erzebet Bathori and Grainne Mhaol, the pirate queen of Connacht, who Google will tell you are Elizabeth Bathory and Grace O'Malley, respectively. You can find Katie's podcast on your favorite podcast streaming platforms with new episodes dropping every Tuesday - and make sure you follow her on IG at @whodidwhatnowpod
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E64: Smutty Confessions

It is the conclusion of our 3-part series on the history of Pennhurst State School and Hospital and this week Katie did a lot of spooky research that, honestly, scared the crap out of her. We also discuss the ethics of participating in ghost hunts and haunted houses in places like Pennhurst where the history of the location is truly traumatizing for the residents who were subjected to the torture and confinement. We also take a pretty crazy detour back into werewolf porn and Katie confesses perhaps the most embarrassing thing about herself.
 
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Sources:
Ghost Adventures Season 3, Episode 1
Destination Fear, Season 1, Episode 10
https://weirdnj.com/stories/pennhurst-asylum/

E63: A Potpie of Ailments

Welcome to Part 2 of our 3 part series on the history of Pennhurst State School. Last week we covered the history through Mr. Bill Baldini's expose that showed just how extreme the abuse of children and handicapped people was at the Pennhurst institution. From deliberately degrading patients, causing intense physical pain to exert authority and control, to the legislature denying the medical need for female patients to have bras, the abuse was infected into every ounce of this place. This week, though, Katie tells us the history of all the lawsuits and the federal criminal indictments against Pennhurst workers that finally caused the closure of the school on December 9, 1987, one day before Katie made her grand entrance earthside and really started to wreck havoc. 
 
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Sources:
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/pennhurst-state-school-and-hospital/#:~:text=During%20eight%20decades%20of%20continuous,the%20remaining%20residents%20moved%20elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennhurst_State_School_and_Hospital
http://www.preservepennhurst.org/default.aspx?pg=26
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/04/us/workers-indicted-in-patient-abuse.html
https://thesnapper.millersville.edu/index.php/2020/11/06/behind-the-walls-of-terror/
http://preservepennhurst.com/default.aspx?pg=93
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution
https://disabilityjustice.org/halderman-v-pennhurst-state-school-hospital/

E62: Doctor Fear’s Medical School

What was Pennhurst State School? Was it a school? A hospital? A mental health treatment facility? Turns out it wasn't really any of those things and instead is better identified as "Pennsylvania's Shame." The Pennhurst State School was borne out of a eugenicist idea that individuals with intellectual, developmental, or physical disabilities are "other" and should not be permitted to intermingle with "preferred" society. For 80 years, Pennhurst State School was a place where suffering was the norm and no one cared. In 1968, however, a local news reporter named Bill Baldini produced a multi-part expose on the "school" which lead to some immediate reforms but also - and critically - many lawsuits. In part 1 of our 3 part series on Pennhurst, Katie teaches us the history of the institution up to and including Mr. Baldini's report. 
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Sources: 
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/pennhurst-state-school-and-hospital/#:~:text=During%20eight%20decades%20of%20continuous,the%20remaining%20residents%20moved%20elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennhurst_State_School_and_Hospital
http://www.preservepennhurst.org/default.aspx?pg=26
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/04/us/workers-indicted-in-patient-abuse.html
https://thesnapper.millersville.edu/index.php/2020/11/06/behind-the-walls-of-terror/
http://preservepennhurst.com/default.aspx?pg=93
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution
https://disabilityjustice.org/halderman-v-pennhurst-state-school-hospital/

E61: Prehensile Elephant Dongs

This one comes at you from our Patreon Dysfunction Junction Vault - even though Garet is on maternity leave when you're hearing this, that will be over soon and we'll be back on our Dysfunction Junction bullshit train. Meaning that more of this mayhem will be available EXCLUSIVELY on Patreon soon. But this episode is just too good to not share with everyone. Stemming from a different Patreon episode we released back in April 2023, this week Katie gives Garet a baby shower gift of the story of the feud between Betty White and Bob Barker that somehow involves making a giant silicone elephant vagina and date raping elephants on the plains of the Serengeti. Tune in to find out what the hell that word soup sandwich means and share us with your friends!
 
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Sources: 
https://bowilliams.com/2010/01/betty-white-bob-barkers-sworn-enemy/
https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/5934/bob-barker-called-betty-white-his-sworn-enemy/#:~:text=Both%20Barker%20and%20White%20were,White%20his%20%E2%80%9Csworn%20enemy.%E2%80%9D
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/arts/television/bob-barker-betty-white-elephant-zoo.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barker#Animal_rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z4ukQ_WkLo