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Where Are You From?You Know There’s a Lot of People Who Want to Be Good at ThingsHey!Hi there!Moorhead Community Education Youth Programs Coordinator Jess Rheault did permit me to sit with her at her own desk and in her own comfy, comfy chair at the Vista Center for Education offices in Moorhead, Minnesota so that we could discuss Community Education and its own diverse and rich, rich programming or classes, and its own impact on so, so, so many of us!Yes!Yes!Golly it was a foggy, foggy day that day, it was, and that was what was being reported here and...2022-03-1107 min
Where Are You From?It's Not the End - It's Just the Beginning!Hey there! Hey! Don’t be sad!Don’t be!Oh! Don’t!Don’t!Yeah, yeah, the end of the fifth season of the Where Are You From? series is coming or is just around the corner but don’t be sad!Don’t be!Don’tThere are many, many, many more episodes or more seasons that are going to be on the way after a short, short break has been taken!There are! There are!2022-03-1107 min
Where Are You From?You Will Never Meet Another Person That Is Exactly Like MeHey!Darcy Kasprowicz, founder of and director of development and of marketing at North Dakota Autism Center, did set aside some time for her and for myself to chitchat about family and about how early it is that a person or how early it is that a brother or a sister can receive an ASD diagnosis and how we ourselves can take care of or can care for our different abled and brilliant, brilliant and exquisite siblings or family members or customers or clients!Thank you so, so much Darcy, and thank so, so much...2022-03-1110 min
Where Are You From?We're All WeirdHey!Hello hello, and hi there!Haha!Hi!Here is the skinny!It was at the Roasted Rail Coffee House in Dilworth, Minnesota that I did have a opportunity to sit down with Red River Valley Asperger-Autism Network board member, and fellow adult ASD or fellow adult autism spectrum disorder representative and friend Blair Stuart Hill to talk about our own experiences concerning being people, or concerning being individuals who had been diagnosed as autistic or as neurodivergent later in life!Gosh!Gosh did we...2022-03-1109 min
Where Are You From?So Why Aren’t We There Yet?Well hey!Hey! It would not be a new season of Where Are You From? without Heather Zinger making some time to inform me of one thing and then another thing, and to point me in one direction and then in another direction, and to allow me to make her laugh and laugh and laugh right!It would not be! It wouldn’t!Haha! Here we do stand in her and her husband’s own backyard and we do cover ADHD testing or ADHD tests and blowing our...2022-03-1108 min
Where Are You From?Don’t Be Afraid to Murder Your DarlingsBill Thompson is a good, good friend that I am supposed to have, and he and I did chat about “the industry” or working in the movies, and for television programs, or certain productions and the like! I do know that that is what it is that I am supposed to be doing as a job or what it is that I am supposed to be doing for work or doing for a living, but there is something that is keeping me right where it is that I am right now, and while it is so that I am...2022-03-1109 min
Where Are You From?And So That’s Just a Little Bit of the Journey I’ve HadHey there! Here nurse and advocate and friend Breanna Kompelien does sit down with me in the apartment that I do rent to talk about our own journeys in mental health and mental wellness and salubrity! I do talk about the life that it was that I was living before I did have the correct neurobiological or neurodivergent, or atypical diagnosis that I was supposed to have, and Breanna does cover some of her professional observations and distinctions, or some of her own career highlights or insights in the mental healthcare system or profession!2022-03-1006 min
Where Are You From?Where Are You From? Season Five TrailerHey!Hey!This is the fifth season of the web series Where Are You From? here!This is!This is!Movies and mental health, and movies and art, and art therapy and tests and eduction and self-expression are all topics that do come up during this final season of 2021!They are! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/moAMAMwcOVs--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whereareyoufromseries/support2022-03-1001 min
Where Are You From?Yeah, Like, There Might Be Some Shred of the TruthHey! Tara Lenertz and I do join forces once again to discuss just how it is that mental healthcare facilities and institutions and do keep popping up as locations or as settings in horror films and thrillers, and serious dramas or serious dramatic and even comedic cinematic projects or features! We do talk about Changeling and about Halloween, and about The Frighteners and Silence of the Lambs, and we do mention Return to Oz very, very briefly! There are also some movie recommendations that we do offer, you had better check this episode...2022-03-0710 min
Where Are You From?A Halloween Love Letter to Howard the DuckHello there!And a frightful and delightful and an eerily significant and weird, weird Halloween holiday to you!There is film that I had watched way back when, when the internet was a dream and when cinema was all what it was that we did have to entertain us and to inform us of the world and of all of the worlds beyond our own bedrooms and outside of our own neighborhoods!That film was Howard the Duck!It was!Do join me, and do join Scotch Anderson and...2022-03-0716 min
Where Are You From?We’re Almost ThereHey and hey and here we are!Here we are!Haha!Here we are again!Hahaha!Here Heather Zinger and I are following the trail of the history of mental healthcare in Fargo at our final site, or at our final former location of a turn of the century sanitarium in the FM area!Whew!Whew!Heather and I are visiting the former location of the Keeley Institute near what is now the location of Prairie St. John’s psychiatric hospital across from Is...2022-03-0707 min
Where Are You From?There Just Was a Lot of ExperimentationHey!Hey!Heather Zinger and I do continue to journey into the hazy and into the somewhat eerie history of mental healthcare in Fargo-Moorhead with a stop at where it had been that the Fargo Sanitarium used to be!Ahh!Ahh!We could not help but get together and discuss our own discoveries and or our own ideas that we did have about early mental health treatments and cures, and just how necessary or just how unnecessary it may be that we do ought to talk to patients and...2022-03-0706 min
Where Are You From?If You’re in the Market for a Building That Used to Be a SanitariumWell hey hey and hi, and good, good morning to you today!Haha!Hello!Hello!Are you ready to join Heather Zinger and me and take yourself a trip into the past and find out a bit about the history and about the historic and very, very different, different practices in mental healthcare in Fargo at the turn of the century?Hahaha!I do hope that you are!I do!In this episode of Where Are You From? Heather and I do visit...2022-03-0707 min
Where Are You From?I'm Sure Some of Them Did Some GoodHey!Hey it was during a conversation with Christy Goulet that I did wonder aloud or posit aloud to her that there could have been a time when it was I could have been hospitalized or institutionalized for just being myself, and for just exhibiting certain symptoms or certain attributes or features of what is now a certain mental health or neurodivergent or psychological diagnosis that I do have!I could have!I could!Ahh!Ahh!And so following that conversation or that positing or exchange I...2022-03-0705 min
Where Are You From?That's What Creator Would Want for MeHey!Christy Goulet did invite me over to her home to discuss the impact that she does attempt to make on our current society or population, and to chat about how neurodiversity is recognized and celebrated by her own nation by sharing the stories and the traditions and the rituals and practices of her Indigenous ancestors and tribe!Gosh!I sure, sure must tell you that there was something sacred and that there was something very, very powerful and real that was blessing us and conducting us while Christy and I did visit...2022-03-0705 min
Where Are You From?Where Are You From? Season Four TrailerHey!Here in this fourth, can you believe it fourth season of Where Are You From? Heather Zinger and I, and countless others in Fargo-Moorhead and beyond begin to attempt to answer that question, “Where are you from?” while taking a closer look at the history of mental healthcare in our area!Just how was it that individuals with what we do now consider or deem mental health or neurodivergent issues were treated with certain sanitariums or asylums or state run or operated hospitals and facilities, and what is the legacy of that treatment in our...2022-03-0601 min
Where Are You From?I Create MyselfWell hey again already huh!Hey!Hey!Here I am talking about the abstract state of mind so that students can understand just how it is that they can access that pure or purely creative or very, very creative and artistic and limitless and unhindered or unrestrained part or area of their own imagination or of their own brains while I am preparing to teach one class here and then one class or one experience or presentation there!Hahaha!I do certainly, certainly have myself a whole lot of...2022-03-0603 min
Where Are You From?I Didn’t Even Get To About Twelve of My QuestionsHey there!And hey!Y’know sometimes you do have the spotlight or you do have the attention of an audience and then sometimes you don’t!That is the way that things do go, and while Heather Zinger and I were being interviewed on Prairie Public’s Main Street radio program we did have the attention of a wonderful, wonderful audience!We did!It was the people of Fargo-Moorhead and everyone who it was who was listening or who could have been listening online!Hahaha!Wow...2022-03-0607 min
Where Are You From?We All Have a Sort of TrainingHey there!We are all people aren’t we?We are women and men and children and persons or individuals, and we are human beings!We are!We do care about one another, and some of us do care a lot!Some of us who are like that, who do care so, so much are sometimes labeled “codependent” and some of us do need to relinquish or to release our holds or our grips on just how much we may think we are suppose to do something about something for so...2022-03-0606 min
Where Are You From?Keep Going Until You Find What You NeedHey!Hey! Not to be too corny or not to bend your ear too, too much here but sometimes your mental health journey or quest or path will look a whole lot like a corn field or a corn maze or labyrinth that you simply cannot find your own way through or out of!Oh no!Oh no!At That’s the Dream Farm in Glyndon, Minnesota Heather Zinger and I did get ourselves a little lost a little bit both during our own walk through rows and rows an...2022-03-0604 min
Where Are You From?That Actually Does Help Calm Me DownHey!Alright, alright I do know that this episode of Where Are You From? is debuting or is arriving a little early but why not huh! Why not show up a little early here and there or sometimes right! Doing so can be a welcome surprise or an unintended or unexpected gift or treasure or present!In this episode Heather Zinger and I do discuss a bit of her own mental health journey or her own story of neurodiversty or of being atypical while taking a moment to deeply, deeply center...2022-03-0607 min
Where Are You From?Where Are You From? Season Three TrailerHey!This is the third season of the series about the John David that I am supposed to be and of course about the artists and the activists and the educators and friends that I do know, and about all of the choices and differences that we are supposed to be making, because that is how it is that each of us can make our world around us a much, much more inclusive and caring and totally, totally understanding and captivating and enchanting place to live together!Check it out immediately huh!Hahaha!2022-03-0601 min
Where Are You From?Where Are You From? Season Two TrailerHey!This is the second season of the series about the John David that I am supposed to be, and about the artists and the activists that I know, and about the differences that we are supposed to be making, and about how it is that we can all make our own world around us a much, much more inclusive and caring, and totally understanding place, together!Do, do check it out today! https://youtu.be/JkxNuUgEKX0--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whereareyoufromseries/support2022-03-0501 min
Where Are You From?Where Are You From? Season One TrailerHey!This is the first season of a series about the John David that I am supposed to be, and about the art, and about the difference that I am supposed to be making, and about how it is that we can all make the world a much, much more colorful and exciting, and beautiful, beautiful place together!Check it out! https://youtu.be/tlLdVvy0V6g--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whereareyoufromseries/support2022-03-0501 min
Songs of PraiseSongs of Praise - 77Enjoy an hour of musical reflection to encourage, uplift and draw you into a closer relationship with our loving Saviour, Jesus Christ. Featuring the following songs:
Softly & Tenderly Jesus is Calling - Diogenes e Lilian OliveiraWe Need to Know - Clearly HinzeIt Was Love - Danny Shelton, Ladye Love SmithThe Old Rugged Cross - Wintley PhippsSoldiers of Christ Arise - Josh SnodgrassSeek First - Carly FletcherLet Us Run - Christian BerdahlTis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus/Trust and Obey/ Only Trust Him...2021-11-141h 19Songs of PraiseSongs of Praise - 75Enjoy an hour of musical reflection to encourage, uplift and draw you into a closer relationship with our loving Saviour, Jesus Christ. Featuring the following songs:
Fairest Lord Jesus - Josh SnodgrassYes He Is - Carly FletcherI Repent - David AitkenOn Jordan's Stormy Banks - AcapeldridgeSpirit of the Living God - Lily Pan DiehlCome to Me - Matt & Josie MinikusOh I Want to Know You More - Christian BerdahlIn The Sweet By and By - Ben EversonHymn Medley 2 - Matt & Josie...2021-10-311h 18
Where Are You From?An Extended Chitchat with Heather ZingerHey! Hello there and hi during this first description for this first or for this initial Where Are You From? web series companion podcast series episode! Hahaha! Wow! Wow! That was a mouthful right there wasn't it! Haha! While Heather Zinger and I had been planning some of the discussions for the next or for the upcoming season of the web series she and I did squeeze in an extended chitchat or an extension of a chitchat about how susceptible or about how open or allowing autistic individuals might be to becoming codependent, or taking on codependent roles in...2021-09-0812 min
Where Are You From?That Probably Makes You Way More Sane Than Most PeopleHey! So here Heather Zinger and I did head ourselves out to That’s the Dream Farm in Glyndon, Minnesota to have a discussion about goals and about philosophies and about so, so much more and we were totally, totally swept up or we were immersed in the healthy and in the healing and in the connective, connective and relational atmosphere of the facility there and of the whole area! There were friendly guides and there were respectful horses, and there were curious cats and hopping or jumping toads and birds and we were talking to them all and we...2021-09-0807 min
Where Are You From?An Extended Chitchat with Erika Tagestad EdwardsHey! Whoa! Whoa! Did Erika and I have ourselves and in-depth and full and detailed discussion the other day or what right! Hahaha! We did move or fly from one topic or subject to another topic or subject! We did! We did! It was all such a robust and rambunctious rush do let me tell you! True Crime stories or documentaries or entertainment and one's course or path through the arts or through the art world, and jewelry and flower arranging and marriages and motherhood and awkwardness! Gosh! Gosh! It all did go by just so, so fast...2021-09-081h 00
Where Are You From?An Extended Chitchat with Zack ColemanWell hey! Hi there! Hi! Welcome to a third Where Are You From? companion podcast series episode! Welcome! In this episode I do have a wild and exciting and comics or comic book specific chitchat with Zack Coleman, which does make some sense because he and I do cohost another podcast series titled Comic Space! In this discussion though you can hear us just being ourselves and just prepping or getting ourselves into the groove of generating some content for that series or for that endeavor or outlet! Do have yourself a listen to this episode right away, as...2021-09-0858 min
Where Are You From?An Extended Chitchat with Tara LenertzHey again! Hey! Here we are, finding ourselves finding a second or finding or coming across a subsequent or another companion podcast series episode for Where Are You From? with friend and with educator and cinephile Tara Lenertz! Tara and I did have such a rich and a glowing and a bright and vibrant conversation not too long ago for the Where Are You From? series all about movie and television tropes, or storytelling tropes or conventions, and how necessary they may be and about our own friendship which has endured and endured grown and expanded beyond the boundaries...2021-09-082h 01
Where Are You From?Let's Bring On the FriendshipsHey hey! Without any further or necessary delay here is the first episode of the third season of the web series Where Are You From? for you! Haha! This episode did take a wee, wee bit longer to put together because honestly there was just so much to look at and to pay attention to and to trim down and to assemble or to fit together y’know! I do think that it is so, so amazing to see that I do fit together with so many people after I had been informed that that might not be a pa...2021-09-0807 min
Where Are You From?There's All of Us Working TogetherHello there!
And hey!
While Heather Zinger and I do prepare to visit That’s the Dream Farm in Glyndon, Minnesota for the third season of Where Are You From? I had thought that I ought to take a moment and take a look at my own origins and just how far it is that I have come in such a short time at the end of this current season!
Yes!
Yes!
I ought to!
Here in this season finale episode I do mention our grandfather Arch Berdahl and then his son David Berdahl and then myself, not to mention He...2021-08-2202 min
Where Are You From?We Are Not ManufacturedWhat!
Did you think that Heather Zinger and I were done having a little chat in Lindenwood Park in Fargo, North Dakota about neurodiversity and mental health and the like?
No way man!
No way!
We did move our conversation or we did move our chat to or towards the bridge!
We did!
And we also did welcome the opinions and the beliefs and the thoughts of really enlightened and really, really eloquent passersby!
We did! We did!
I did equate love or sharing love to owning a restaurant!
Huh.
Was I supposed to do that?
I have no idea t...2021-08-2205 min
Where Are You From?Wait! What if I Am Sitting on Gum?Hey again!
We have to just come to the best part of the week haven’t we!
Haha!
The part of the week or the weekend when you can watch or you can see and hear more of the conversation that Heather Zinger and I did continue to have at Lindenwood Park in Fargo, North Dakota!
We did talk about so much, like our identities and our strengths, and who it is that we are supposed to be spending our time with and whether or not every single person you do see is supposed to be loved!
Hahaha!
And that wa...2021-08-2204 min
Where Are You From?You Know I Probably Could Offer to HelpHey!
Oh hey!
So were John and Heather Zinger being too, too literal by sitting themselves next to a fountain at Lindenwood Park in Fargo, North Dakota and discussing their own experiences as neurodivergent members of the community?
Whether they do consider themselves “fountains of knowledge” or of inspiration or ideas is entirely, entirely up to you but they talk and talk they did with their own backs on the ground and their eyes pointed right towards the sky, and to the future!
Haha!
Do find out what they did have so say today!
https://youtu.be/ni2ya7Ug0fo
...2021-08-2204 min
Where Are You From?We Are Surrounded by NatureHey!
Here in this third episode of the second season of Where Are You From? the informative and the impassioned and vehement discussion with good, good friend and artist Heather Zinger does come to a conclusion at Island Park in Fargo because, well, it did have to end at some point right!
While sitting together and sharing our own thoughts and our own views Heather did plug a book titled No Hugs! that had been written by Deirdre Prischmann and illustrated by Sarah Jennings!
You totally can find the book on Amazon.com by following the link below!
https://www.a...2021-08-2205 min
Where Are You From?That Is One Loud BirdHey!
Hey hey there and hello again all of a sudden right!
Here the conversation with local artist and mental health activist and advocate and leader Heather Zinger continues on the concrete steps of a theater at Fargo’s own Island Park!
Haha!
It does!
With subjects such as saving one another and tangling and untangling, and overcoming overstimulation and repairing relationships and so many, many more being addressed this episode really, really, really ought not to be missed y’know!
It totally, totally is not!
https://youtu.be/zvbtaMDBnvk
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Where Are You From?Can You Tell Me More About These Gloves?Hey!
Hey!
Well just as soon as I had thought that Where Are You From? would be on a break of some sort or on a hiatus or vacation here a second season has recently been begun!
Wow!
Wow!
And local artist and mental health activist and friend Heather Zinger has joined me in the car to take a dive into what overstimulation or autistic overload can be like for a person who is on the spectrum!
Wow!
Hahaha!
Check it out right now huh!
https://youtu.be/p4SpP-Y4aQA
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Where Are You From?Nobody's PerfectHey!
The time has come!
It has!
All good little seasons of good little series must come to an end right, and here is the end of this first good little season of this series with a super silly compilation and a thank you!
A very, very, very important thank you!
https://youtu.be/rvxGv6-RHys
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Where Are You From?I'm From Right HereHey!
Oh!
Oh!
Here it is!
Here it is!
The long awaited answer to that all important question, “Where are you from?”
Haha!
Where am I from?
Well heck!
Heck!
I will tell you right now!
https://youtu.be/n9ZWgdrExiU
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Where Are You From?Berdahl's Biscuits BoxesHi!
Haha!
Or hello hello!
Hahaha!
Hello!
Do join me at the computer while I do design some boxes for the homemade cookies that I have been baking and baking and baking here!
And do check out UPrinting’s website at www.uprinting.com for your own product’s, or your own merchandise’s packaging needs huh!
Do!
https://youtu.be/_5jYu4O5cLM
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Where Are You From?When God Gives You Lemons You Make Vegan Lemon Cookies, and You Thank God TooHey!
Hi again!
Hi!
Here I am in the kitchen baking some vegan lemon cookies and talking about being on the spectrum!
Do sit down and make yourself at home huh!
Do make yourself at home!
https://youtu.be/RS--gQsAYV0
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Where Are You From?"It's Fair"Hey!
Here is me listening to me, or here is me listening to my own rerecording efforts I guess!
Haha!
Here!
soundcloud.com/john-david-berdahl/its-fair
Do have a listen as well!
https://youtu.be/YmAEUblr_uM
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Where Are You From?Making It My OwnHey!
Here I am talking about rerecording songs, and then there I am actually rerecording them!
Wow!
https://youtu.be/tGKUvMCun34
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Where Are You From?The Unstoppable Lash Lightning #1Hey!
Hey!
Here I am just saying hello, and introducing you to the first issue of The Unstoppable Lash Lightning!
https://youtu.be/RCWWPdETtc0
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Where Are You From?Where Are You From? (Trailer)--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whereareyoufromseries/support2021-08-2000 minSongs of PraiseSongs of Praise - 21Enjoy an hour of musical reflection to encourage, uplift and draw you into a closer relationship with our loving Saviour, Jesus Christ. Featuring the following songs:
What A Friend We Have In Jesus - Rick Foster
Blessings - Marleta Fong
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus - Alan Jackson
Amazing Grace - John Alldis, National Philharmonic Orhcestra, London Philharmonic Choir
In the garden - Gemma & Meggie Richardson
It's My Desire - Tammy Shelton Chance
Until Then - John Lomacang
Seekers Of Your Yeart - David Pitt & Jennifer Lauletta
Great is Thy Faithfulness - Hildegard Christian
Golgotha's Hill...2020-10-181h 15
EyePodASCRS 2020: OSD improvement in eyes implanted with trabecular meshwork bypass stentsJohn Berdahl, MD, of Vance Thompson Vision, speaks with Ophthalmology Times'® David Hutton on the highlights of his presentation "Ocular Surface Disease Improvement in Eyes Implanted with Trabecular Meshwork Bypass Stents (iStent or iStent inject)," during the 2020 ASCR virtual meeting.2020-06-1502 min
Ten with Ken (Video)2015 in Review: PR Headaches (Part 2)Last week, Ken Steele looked back at some major PR headaches sparked by students and faculty, from white student unions to a blogging board member. https://youtu.be/qn0ylCsR9Jw
But some of the biggest media relations migraines of all start at the top, with board chairs and presidents.
It’s a considerable risk for a multi-million-dollar organization to rest its reputation squarely on the shoulders of a single individual. Last year Subway’s spokesperson, Jared, went to prison on child sex charges. And the president of a small Christian college in South Carolina resi...2016-02-2410 min