A group of all-native girls with a lot to prove, take on the future of their high school lacrosse team. And an ENT doctor learns to be comfortable outside her comfort zone.

STORIES

The Medicine Game

A group of all-native girls with a lot to prove, take on the future of their high school lacrosse team.

This story contains racially insensitive language. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.

Thank you, Jacelyn, for sharing your story with us! Jacelyn now plays lacrosse for Virginia Tech.

We first heard about Jacelyn’s story from the film, Keepers of the Game, which follows the Salmon River Girls lacrosse team during the 2015 season. Big thanks and love to “The Halluci Nation” formerly known as “A Tribe Called Red” for letting us use their song “Stadium Pow Wow” in this story. Also special thanks to the film’s director Judd Ehrlich.

Some of the audio in this story comes from the Keepers of the Game documentary and was aired courtesy of the Dicks Sporting Goods Foundation.

Produced by Shaina Shealy, special thanks to Regina Bediako

Original score by Leon Morimoto, artwork by Teo Ducot

Rhino Rocket

Otolaryngologist Tina Munjal tells a story about learning to be comfortable outside of her comfort zone. This story was told live at The Nocturnists’ live show Out of the Comfort Zone, at the Grey Area Theater in San Francisco on October 18, 2019.

Original theme music by Yosef Munro, additional music from Blue Dot Sessions

This story comes to us from The Nocturnists, a San Francisco-based medical storytelling live show, and podcast where healthcare workers share stories of joy, sorrow, and self-discovery. It was created and is hosted by physician Emily Silverman.

For more stories from the world of medicine, check out The Nocturnists wherever you get your podcasts or visit their website. Listen and subscribe right now!

Season 12 – Episode 8

The Medicine Game

Prepared piano and urban malaise for the aspiring screenwriter

License

Spiro's Desk

Whimsical tracks with toy piano and friends.

To download and license the complete session for your project including variation files and multitrack stem files, visit www.sessions.blue

Blue Dot Sessions records minimalist acoustic music for public radio and video.  Our entire library of over 1000 tracks is available for download under a non-commercial license.  Blanket licenses available for podcasters and Youtubers. Learn more and hear the whole collection at our website.

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Love and Weasel

Mr Mole and Son

Hedgehog Wallace

WHAT These ambiguous objects play with perception as they balance on the border between innocence, sex and food. 
WHY Childish imagery of cartoons and toys have something strangely in common ground with that of erotic imagery, says Hala Tawil. Both represent the world in a perfect and delicious manner. ‘Gradual Unease’ investigates this type of kitschy imagery, and the mechanisms of desire that lie underneath. 
HOW The forms of these glossy meats and sweets were inspired by the food Hala spotted in children’s cartoons. Made of resin-coated papier-mâché, they create their own fun setting in a slightly unsettling way, which is emphasised by their strangely small scale. 
QUOTE “Where do we draw the line between what we need and what we want?” 

Interview: Tom Loois | Editing and sounddesign: Lotte van Gaalen | Mix: Lotte van Gaalen | Editor in chief: Tom Loois | Soundtrack: Blue Dot Sessions. Music: www.freemusicarchive.org

DAE Design Research Podcast - Hala Tawil - Gradual Unease

Sven was on a jury that sentenced a man named Paul Storey to death. He's regretted it ever since. Then, eight years later, Sven gets an email from Paul’s mother.

The original article that Maurice Chammah reported with Sven about his experience on the jury: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/03/10/my-regrets-as-a-juror-who-sent-a-man-to-death-row

Credits
Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.
This episode was also produced by Stevie Lane, Peter Bresnan, and Kalila Holt.
Editing by Jorge Just, with additional editing by Alex Blumberg.
Special thanks Emily Condon, Maurice Chammah, Emanuele Berry, Caitlin Kenney, Jon-Mikel Tuttle-Gates, Amanda Marzullo, Mike Ware, Emily Fallis, Brian Reed, Sean Cole, Diane Wu, Christopher Swetala, Ira Glass, the rest of our friends at This American Life, and Jackie Cohen.
The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. 
Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Michael Hearst, Blue Dot Sessions, and Bobby Lord. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records, and our ad music is by Haley Shaw.

Heavyweight

#18 Sven

NACHC Director of Health Center Operations and Army Veteran, April Lewis joins us to discuss her journey from the Army to the Community Health Center Movement. She also shares her insights, as a veteran, into why health centers are so important to the health of our nation's vets. Music in this podcast is Heliotrope by Blue Dot Sessions find it here: https://www.sessions.blue/?fwp_sessions=aeronaut

One Veteran's Health Center Journey

Boomerang

Cole Robinson - Guitar
Galen Huckins - Piano
Derek Norman - Bass
Corey Kintzi - Drums

Train on the Steel Bridge

Minimalist acoustic music. Recorded in Blue Dot Studios for production and pleasure. We work with public radio and podcast producers to write and record their soundtracks.  NPR, Gimlet, WNYC, Radiotopia, PRX.

We do unusual things with marimbas and 2X4s. 

All music available under a Creative Commons license, also simple and inexpensive to license for your fancy projects.