Trashedlight

A very important Ian McDiarmid correction - he did play Palpatine in Return of the Jedi! What a star.   If you're interested in a wild Michael Sheen performance (and a different take on this scene than the book gave us), here is a clip from the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfsS2lJWTUg

Instead of an attempt to be funny this will be a plea to anyone out there who has ever seen a one thousand, five thousand, or ten thousand dollar bill. PLEASE email us and let us know - I have to know more about their existence. 

Is this the wildest way we've ever ended a show? Guess you'll have to listen to the whole thing to find out.   Colleen was wrong about the cell phones on planes thing but right about the gas station thing and here are the receipts from Mythbusters to prove it: https://mythresults.com/episode49 and http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/10/03/cellphones_at_gas_stations_mythbusters_debunk_...

As one of us says in this very episode, "Buckle up, buttercup!" We talk shitty men (as usual) and weird things to hear at work. Bonus points if you can identify both the singer and the musical from which the piece of our interlude song comes. 

Get ready to hear the funniest pitch for a podcast you will ever hear in your life - it's the one podcast we'd openly admit is funnier than ours. Kudos to Archer for the idea! 

There's a lot of heavy sighing in this episode - it's a reflection of the time of year and how bad this chapter is. Here's the SparkNotes for R&J if you need a plot refresher: https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/

Apologies again for the audio quality - beep boop bop I'm a robot now.   This episode has a section with content warnings for substance abuse, suicide, and suicidal ideation. If you or a friend or loved one ever feel like you need help, please talk to someone. The AFSP is a great place to start: https://afsp.org/ 

A thousand apologies (again) for the audio quality... you get what you pay for I guess... This week that well spent money will buy you: multiple rants/anecdotes from Colleen, and multiple uses of the word "woof" unironically from Rebecca. 

This episode abounds with song references...so I guess it's business as usual over here at Trashedlight, Inc. Also, Science Facts with Rebecca are back!! 

As silly and insane as we sound at the beginning of this one, we do dive into some serious and important subjects that, as usual, surround us giving out PSAs about abusive men like flyers from an environmental group outside a Trader Joe's.   Reductress article mentioned: https://reductress.com/post/this-man-is-happy-he-owned-up-to-past-however-triggering-it-may-be-for-you/

Rebecca cries from laughter during this one. I hope you do too, dear listener. And now, our plethora of show note links - Article on trauma and how it affects the body: https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/emotional-trauma-18/emotional-trauma-mind-body-connection Hell's Angels helping victims of child abuse: https://harleyliberty.com/2018/08/03/biker-organization-supports-protects-children-of-abuse...

Welcome to our most positive episode yet folks! "Into the woods to see the glen so Edward talks in my head again..."   (Any other/better Into the Woods parodies can be sent to trashedlight@gmail.com for approval by your favorite podcasting duo)

We have a special guest! Big thanks to Archer for reading a full chapter of this garbage and then hanging out with us to talk about it.   For those interested, from 0:35-1:13 in this video is the fun ~hand-holding~ scene in the New Moon movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nijGK0Qw-e0

This episode is... mostly an angry helmet PSA from your favorite podcasting duo. We're not sorry about it and you're welcome that we didn't make it an even longer, angrier PSA.   Here is the Margaret Atwood quote we reference, but only read it if you're ready to be haunted by it every day for the rest of your life: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/329778-male-fantasies-male-fantasies-is-everything...

Ah, the friend zone. Ya hate to see it -- and we don't in this chapter!!   Here is a link to the full text of "The Yellow Wallpaper"   Here is the Wikipedia article on it, which provides some nice context.   And here is an article about drug abuse in rural America .

"Team Jacob or BUST, babbbyyyyy!!!" --Colleen, for way too long in this episode, as is her right as a podcast host.   Also there are some weird clicking noises in this episode that your fearless editor half tried to get rid of as completely as possible, and we apologize for the ones still there. 

We laugh a LOT in this episode, and y'all know how loud we tend to get when we laugh a lot... Here is a link to the Twitter thread Rebecca mentioned about men expecting women to wait for them: https://cheezburger.com/7841285/twitter-user-shares-story-about-how-his-friend-lost-love-and-its-an-important-message-6-tweets

How did we make Kenneth Brannagh relevant in the middle? You'll just have to wait and see. If you want to start therapy and are unsure how, reach out to your general practitioner doctor or start a web search of therapists in your area! We highly recommend it.

We have created a new official byline for the podcast: "I'm not saying Bella was asking to contract a vector-borne disease, I'm just saying she wasn't setting herself up for success". If that doesn't make you want to listen, what will??? If Bella's depressive episode that we described resonated with you personally or a loved one, here is a good link to get started on trying to get help:...

The theme of this episode: religion. Lots of it, folks. We also create a new, social justice related hashtag!! #NotAllAdolescents. It's okay, we don't really get it either.

CONTENT WARNING: We discuss suicide and suicidal ideation for a small chunk in the middle of this episode. If you want to avoid both the conversation about it and our content/trigger warning, skip from 26:34-32:01. If you or a loved one need help ever, the AFSP is a great place to start: https://afsp.org/ Book #2 babbbyyyyy!!!! I looked for almost 20 minutes and I could NOT find the David Tennant...

Well, if the title doesn't clue you into what our "secret bonus episode" is about, I'm not sure what to say. Have some spicy discourse about super heroes! BAH BAH BAH BAH.... Here's the link to character screentime in Endgame: https://geektyrant.com/news/the-screen-time-for-several-of-the-characters-in-avengers-endgame

Well...we were drunk. What can I say. Colleen does a weird amount of whispering and forgets to circle back to her (I'm sure very important) point about Billy Burke. Rebecca makes too much sense about science but don't worry, you can tell she's drunk too.

We've hit peak Edward possessiveness and weirdness just in time for the book to be over!...And for it to probably get worse in the next books!...Also, it turns out the state of Washington does have a version of a Cinderella law, which you can read about here: https://www.atg.wa.gov/driving-laws

Come on a journey with Colleen as she learns a new fact and fails to pronounce the word "opioid" about 17 million different times! And join us all in commemorating the last non-epilogue chapter of Twilight! On a more serious note, here is a good article explaining a more exact timeline of the opioid crisis: https://www.poison.org/articles/opioid-epidemic-history-and-prescribing-patterns-...