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Katie interviews Dr. Jody Thomas, the founder of the Meg Foundation. The two discuss how the nonprofit empowers families with pain management strategies to prevent and reduce pain in children.

Jody first explains how the Meg Foundation was created. She then elaborates on the three types of pain that children experience, and how parents can best support children in what specific type of pain they may be going through. 

Finally, what information should parents arm themselves with the next time their child needs to go to the doctor? Tune in for answers!

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A podcast where we talk about films and stuff! Continuing their public service by watching shows you've probably never heard of, Ethan and Pete watch two recent tv shows, neither of which they would normally watch! Listen as Ethan and Pete do quick fire analyses/first impressions of Apple's Five Days At Memorial and Hulu's Will Trent! 

Will they keep watching these shows (yes and no)? More importantly, should you watch them (also yes and no)? Listen now! 

Do you have any film or TV recommendations? Is there a show you think you'd be interested in watching but you don't have the time? Let us know at aloha@filmsandstuffpodcast.com, tweet us @FandSPodcast, DM us on Instagram or @filmsandstuffpodcast. Please make sure to like and leave comment on each video, and subscribe to our YouTube channel! 

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Do you have any film or TV recommendations? Is there a show you think you'd be interested in watching but you don't have the time? Let us know at aloha@filmsandstuffpodcast.com, tweet us @FandSPodcast, DM us on Instagram or @filmsandstuffpodcast. Please make sure to like and leave comment on each video, and subscribe to our YouTube channel!

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Eli Stone is truly the cards against humanity of TV shows. It's about a Wall Street bro who gets a brain aneurysm that causes hallucinations of singer/songwriter George Michael, who then convinces Eli to become a religious prophet and take an anti-vaxxer stance against big pharma. We had no idea this show even existed, but our special guest, Tom Schenck, is still traumatized by it. Also included: we completely lose our minds while trying to figure out what color a fart is.

Imagine The Wire and Glee had a baby. Now imagine Randy Newman sang the theme song for that baby. Boom, you've got Cop Rock—a gritty police procedural with choreographed dance routines and Emmy Award winning musical numbers. Special Guests Ethan Krebs and Ben Kaplan help us make sense of this primetime fever dream while analyzing the place that musicals have in TV.

Your classic hospital drama with a hefty side of gabagool. Becca LaFortune joins the boys to discuss Italian stereotypes, Tik Tok trends, sexy mods for The Sims, and one of the most boring network medical procedurals of all time, The Mob Doctor.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the Kingslayer himself, plays an immortal Dutch pilgrim-turned-homicide detective in this 2008 primetime procedural from FOX. Aidan and Dan are joined by special guest Kira Charron, who once proudly studied media at Western University. Please note: there are two very different shows titled New Amsterdam—this is the one with an immortal Dutch homicide detective.

On the back of protests against police brutality we discuss what this means for policing on screen. Jason speaks with the director of TV series Made in Italy, a new doco about climate change and Joanna Hoggs' The Souvenir.

UIT 2: Kingsley talks about how he prototypes games, the current project he and his team is working on (a 3D Platformer game called Frog Island).

He also talks about another side project of his; a procedural games engine to generate worlds.

Kingsley talks about his thesis; ‘Approach for designing complexity in games’ which focuses the UX in games, and how principles from psychology and design theory can be used to teach players about affordances and signifiers. Also explores chunking of complex information (and abstractions), spaced learning techniques and the limitations of the human mind in terms of maximum amount of working memory. We also explore the idea of soft tutorials in games, and how they might be usable within Web or App experiences too.

We talk about his game, Frog Island, where he employs a lot of the ideas from the thesis as a test case. Tracking in-game to find and fix broken aspects of the UX.

Finally we move onto wrap-up questions.

Complete notes at https://uitherapy.fm/episodes/2/

Links

• Frog Island: https://ojaypopedev.itch.io/frog-island
• BeardyKing: https://twitter.com/beardyking
• Frogislandgame: https://twitter.com/frogislandgame 
• Shader Graph: https://unity.com/shader-graph 
• Celia Hodent - The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design: https://uitherapy.fm/thegamersmind
• Game Maker’s Toolkit: https://twitter.com/gamemakerstk 
• Unity: https://unity.com/ 
• Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/
• Frostbite Engine: https://www.ea.com/frostbite
• Cryengine: https://www.cryengine.com/ 

It’s Valentine’s Day, and we couldn’t resist talking about one of my own childhood favourites, Practical Magic. It’s a mix of romcom, horror, fantasy, drama and it’s weird as hell and very much peak nineties. The story centers on Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman), the latest in a long line of witches who bear a particular curse: any man who dares to fall in love with an Owens woman will meet an untimely death. All grown up, Gillian gets involved with an abusive ‘Transylvanian cowboy’ who they accidentally kill. And then, not so accidentally, bring back to life. What follows is both a romance drama, horror film and procedural.

Our special guest this episode is film critic and nineties romcom pundit Rhianna Dhillon, and we discuss the cheesiness of Practical Magic, thirst over the actors, and discuss how it tackles real-life horrors like domestic abuse and stalking whilst remaining a blend of supernatural horror and romantic.

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To coincide with our season of films and events, Here Be Witches, we will be focusing this first series on exploring all things witchcraft on film. Each episode, we will dive deep into films and TV shows that we can’t necessarily screen. Each episode, we’ll be joined with special guests to dissect and discuss a film or show, its legacy and the way witches are represented.

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Our special guest this episode is Rhianna Dhillon, find her on @rhiannadhillon

Criminal Minds Suspect Behavior: CBS, 2011. Starring Forest Whitaker, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Kelley, Beau Garrett, Matt Ryan, and Kirsten Vangsness. MMtP featuring Dave Wagner and Colin Whiting.