Method To The Madness
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Celebrating the innovative spirit of the Bay Area - we explore the people behind the ideas, the problems they are trying to solve, and what makes them tick. Hosted by producers Ali Nazar and Lisa Kiefer. If you would like to contact the show, please feel free to email: ali at methodtothemadness dot org or lisamttm at gmail dot com. Transcriptions of these programs are available on this site dating back to 2018. The rest are coming soon. If you are interested in a transcription of an earlier episode, please contact us at mail at kalx dot berkeley dot edu. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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CleanLeila Salazar-Lopez | Amazon Watch | 1/17/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUC Berkeley Professor Gabriel Zucman | Wealth Tax | 11/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSaraswathi Devi and Claire Lavery | CalStar Yoga | 7/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGina Colombatto & Meredith Hays | Dealing With Death | 2/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrew Castro | Local musician and author, Andrew Castro, discusses his new book Overcoming Your Anxiety for People on the Go. Transcript: INTRO: This is Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. Today, your host is Ojig Yeretsian. She'll be speaking with Andrew Castro, a professional singer-songwriter turned author. He's recently written a book, Overcoming Your Anxiety for People on the Go. OJIG: Thank You, Andrew, for coming in today. Welcome to the show. Can you tell us about yourself and why you wrote this book? ANDREW: Yeah. So for me, the book wasn't planned. I kind of just spontaneously decided that I had all this information in my head, and I wanted to sit down and write it. And for me, it was just years of personal experience with the content that's in the book. And so I just kind of felt like a gut feeling that I needed to sit down and just put it out. So I just sat down at my computer, wrote it, and I'd struggled with anxiety and stuff. But it didn't really become like a problem for me until I was about twenty five, I’m thirty three now. It was just kind of built, kind of like happens for a lot of people like a hidden layer that you just think it's kind of who you are. And then all of a sudden, it just kind of explodes just from too much buildup. And that was kind of what happened with me, and I went through years of it, pretty debilitating stuff. And then then I kind of got over it, but I went back in the same patterns, and then I, uh, had another bout with it again for a couple of years. And then I decided that, you know, it's time to make an actual change, not just let's see if I can fix this a little bit, but go back to what I was doing. So I had to really change my entire life patterns along the way. Along the way, I've been a professional musician, too, and that lifestyle doesn't always give the best results for not having anxiety, you know, because you're constantly not knowing where you're gonna be next kind of thing. So but yes. So the book just kind of came out, and it didn't take that long to write. It's short, but I outlined it for a couple weeks and then took about two months on and off to write it. OJIG:How do you define anxiety? ANDREW: I wouldn't put any single definition on it because there's so many different variations of it. People have social anxieties. In a simple term, for me, it's just overwhelming. I think that would be the best way to describe it. It's just an overwhelming feeling that there's, you know, social anxiety people who, like I have a friend who has social anxiety. He has more panic, and I have more generalized anxiety, but it's all comes down to just being very overwhelmed by whatever situation you're in with that anxiety. I have small social anxieties like most people do, but nothing that's overwhelming for me. But, you know, for him, social anxiety is overwhelming, like interacting with new people or being in group settings. It just and I don't feel that. But I can understand what he's going through because I think the general of feeling of anxiety is pretty, pretty close to the same. Just depends. Some people have it in this situation, and some people have in that. For me, I would say it's over just overwhelming sensations in thoughts, and they can just cycle and go back and forth with each other. OJIG:It sounds like it's very common. ANDREW:That's the biggest thing I think I tried to come across within the book is that you're not alone. That's the thing that people see and struggle with the most is when they get these feelings. You can't feel what somebody else is feeling, so you don't know that the things you're feeling aren't just you going crazy that they're actually like a pretty common thing, and I don't usually use stats much. But like there is one that always stuck out was that there's about forty million people in the United States alone that suffer in their life with some sort of anxiety disorder, whi | 1/25/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGillian Dreher, June Hong, & Maira McDermott | East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest (EBABZ) | 12/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMary Webb | Living Room Revolution: The Race Dialogues | 11/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShawn Lani | Exploratorium | 11/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrew Brentano | Tiny Farms | 10/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEric Leenson | Single Payer Health in California | 9/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJason Marsh | Greater Good Science Center | 9/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShaun Tai | Oakland Digital | 7/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDr. Jennifer King | Social Media's Harm | 7/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJessica Gray Schipp | #Allergic To Everything | 6/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGreil Marcus | Bay Area Music Critic and Culture Historian | 4/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAsh Bhat & Rohan Phadte | Fighting Fake News | 4/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRob Nicholas Stone | Datavest | 3/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNadir Akhtar and Ashvin Nihalani | Blockchain at Berkeley | 2/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNoah Deich & Giana Amador | Center for Carbon Removal | 1/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLoretta Greco | Remembering Sam Shepard | 12/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAri & Andrew Cohen | Mr. Dewie's Cashew Creamery | 11/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTony Skrelunas | Native American Business Innovation | 11/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMandy Aftel | The Aftel Archive of Curious Scents | 10/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSarah Dvorak & Eric Miller | Maker's Common | 9/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLloyd Kahn | Small Homes | 7/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNathan Kaufman | Perennial Farming Initiative | 7/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEd Bice | Meedan | 6/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKris Hayashi | Transgender Law Center | 4/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHilary Abell | Project Equity | 3/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBrook Pessin-Whedbee | Gender Identity | 3/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAyelet Waldman | Microdosing LSD | 2/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCorrina Gould & Chris Oakes | Shellmound 4th St. | 2/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanArlie Russell Hochschild | Strangers in Their Own Land | 1/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Criminalization of Homelessness | Scout Katovich, Allison Frankel and Hillary Vedvig | 1/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRenee Rivera | Bicycling Advocacy | 1/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPablo Beimler | Wildfire Management | 12/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJoan Blades | Living Room Conversations | 12/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLance Knobel | Co-founder of Berkeleyside | 11/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIrene Tu | Hysteria, Man Haters, and the Mission Positions | 11/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGus Newport | Innovation in Community Organizing | 11/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHaleh Zandi | Planting Justice | 10/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanClark Suprynowicz | Future Fires | 10/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPierce Gordon | Design for Development | 9/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJamie Brooks | Fossil Fuel Consumption | 9/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMark Jacobson | The Solutions Project | 9/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAlex Lofton | Making Homeownership Affordable for Teachers in Cities | 9/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVickie Ly | Water Scarcity and Remote Sensing | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEric Sorensen | Carbon Roots International | 8/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJoe Inderhees | Documentarian & Creator of 'Bay Area Revelations' series | 7/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRuben Hernandez | DevLabs | 6/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDr. Hatem Bazian | Zaytuna College | 5/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWajahat Ali | What it means to be a moderate American Muslim in America | 5/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Mayeri | Berkeley Music Group | 4/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLani Klaphaak & Lindsay Chrisler | Dating in the 21st Century | 2/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKrazy George | Interview with Krazy George, possibly the first professional cheerleader who began appearing at Oakland Atheletic's games in the 1980s. TRANSCRIPT Speaker 1:[inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 2:you're listening to KALX Berkeley 90.7 FM, university of California and listener supported radio. And this is method to the madness coming at you from the Public Affairs Department here at Calex dedicated to celebrating the innovative spirit of the bay area. I'm your host, Allen Huizar. And today we are honored. Speaker 3:I have [00:00:30] crazy George with us. Hey, crazy. George was out. You said my name. I like that last stop. Let's talk. Let's talk. So we have crazy Georgians studio. Crazy. George is famous for a lot of things, but the number one thing I think you're famous for is being the world's first and longest tenured and only full time cheerleader is, I like your title. You gave it. It's perfect. Yes, right. Summed it up perfectly. I am the only person probably in the world that makes [00:01:00] his job, makes his living cheering for teams, getting people to cheer for the team. That's what I do. And they'd pay me enough to make living. Nice. So let's talk about how you get started as a professional cheerleader. You were a sent, you went to San Jose State, is that right? That's right. Mighty San Jose state test. So what, what started to draw you to cheering? Speaker 3:Like was it something that you had always done or was it in college? How did you get started now? I was pretty quiet person but my best friend don bogged and brought a drum and a bugle to a [00:01:30] football game and I couldn't play the bugle cause that takes talent. So I started playing the drum and started pounding on it and all the students at San Jose state started following me and him. And by the end of the football season, I was just sitting in the stands. Everybody was following me. So the cheerleaders asked me to go out. So I went out and they elected me cheerleader the next year and I was a pathetic cheerleader cause I couldn't remember the routines and the words at the same time, I was really bad. So I went off on my [00:02:00] own. I started doing my own little thing with my drum, not everybody following me. Speaker 3:And over the years I just started branching out to pro teams. They loved it. They started hiring me and in 1975 after teaching for four years, I quit teaching. I had to quit those four kids. I was warping their minds. Yeah, you'd probably, screaming on a field is a little bit more of a appropriate place for you and that's right. Well, I want to ask about a lot of things, but you said that the cheerleaders, you couldn't remember [00:02:30] their kind of traditional attorney, you're like a disruptor. You're not like a normal chiller. You call yourself a cheerleader, but you weren't doing the cheerleading routines. How did they take that when you went off on your own? Well, that was the good part. I'm, since I couldn't really fit in with a squad, it was better I worked by myself or off to the side where I could get all the students and the alumni involved in the game. Speaker 3:And so that's how he sort of honed my style. And then from then, then on I was invited to go do an Oakland seals game for [00:03:00] the NHL years ago and I did one game for, for the fun of it. I was invited by a hockey team, a baseball team, went up with them and I got the whole crowd screaming. Nobody knew me. And at the end of the game, um, everybody was, was talking about me. And the next day in the paper, it was a big article on me. Nice. And one of the players said, if he comes back, I'd give him a ticket. So I called him up, he gave me a ticket. I went to another game producer and I was a regular at the Oakland Seals, [00:03:30] hockey games, Oakland seals. Where did they play? They played there in the coliseum where the warriors play a, it was great. Speaker 3:So you, um, so you were at San Jose state where you kind of found this passion. It sound | 2/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDavid Gottfried | California Drought | 6/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKen Singer, Part 2 of 2 | Cal Startup Incubator, Part 2 of 2 | 5/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMonica and Aaron Rocchino | Local Butcher Shop | 3/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVivienne Ming | Big Data and Hiring | 5/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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