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Cube CriticsCube Critics discuss ‘Madame Web’ and ‘The Iron Claw’Cube Critics Jacob Aloi and Sam Stroozas discuss “Madame Web” and “The Iron Claw.”The following is a transcription of the audio heard using the player above, lightly edited for clarity.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or RSS.MPR News Art Reporter Jacob Aloi: This movie was so horrible, like I can’t even like begin to describe how much I hated this movie, and I paid money to see it. And with that, my name is Jacob Aloi. MPR News Digital Producer Sam Stroozas: And I’m Sam Strooz...
2024-02-2304 min
The 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode Eight: Alyssa21-year-old Alyssa Tomchek still uses the implant as her birth control method, but not without going through a usual event in the process. Her first implant got stuck in her arm so before it was set to expire, her doctor put in a second one, a direct violation of the FDA recommendations for dosage.
2021-08-2302 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode Seven: ShannonShannon Owens was 29-years-old when she asked her doctor for a hysterectomy for her severe vaginal hemorrhaging. He told her no and that she, a gay woman, would change her mind about having children. She never did. 15 years later, Shannon has had eight implants to cope with her condition, with the last two migrating.
2021-08-2302 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode Six: Kayleigh23-year-old Kayleigh Marshall was finishing her last year of college when she developed Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. Her future plans derailed and she had to get brain surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic - she attributes this all to her implant.
2021-08-2304 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode Five: HannahIn her sophomore year of college Hannah Blanchard had something happen to her no college student expects, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. While on the implant she couldn't eat without getting sick and later learned she had gained over 100 pounds while on the implant, without changing her diet.
2021-08-2304 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode Four: Frankie33-year-old Frankie Hann couldn't find anyone to take her implant out, they refused - there wasn't anything medically wrong with it so doctors saw no reason for removal. She wanted it out, but that wasn't enough. Frankie struggled for two and a half years finding a doctor to believe her.
2021-08-2303 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode Three: AshlinAshlin Bailey was 15-years-old when she got the birth control implant and until she was 17-years-old, she bled non-stop. She missed out on high school experiences because she couldn't ever leave her house and now she is learning to rebuild her life post-implant.
2021-08-2302 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode Two: AndreaAndrea Ray is a 41-year-old mother from Mississippi. She got the implant after she was done having kids in her early 30s, but when she turned 35 she had to make a major life decision and get a hysterectomy. She was bleeding non-stop for five months after getting her implant out, so much so that her uterus had filled to the size of a six-month pregnant person but it wasn't a fetus she was carrying, it was blood.
2021-08-2303 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsEpisode One: AlishaAlisha Bennett is a 32-year-old mother from Georgia. She decided to get the birth control implant after having her last child. For the most part, it worked, until she developed Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, a rare brain condition that has been tied to the implant.
2021-08-2303 minThe 130 percent - in their own wordsPreview: The 130 percent - in their own wordsBlood clots, brain conditions, cancer, migration, and more - eight women share their stories about using the birth control implant. Listen to all eight episodes of The 130 percent starting August 23. Edited and produced by Sam Stroozas.
2021-08-1801 min
She's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 2, Episode 7, "I Just Want to be Boring for a Little Bit"Join Karley and Sam as they discuss life after graduation, should Sam put "UWL Protects Predatory Professors" on her grad cap? Should Karley become a news producer? They also touch on feminity and classism in professionalism and profiting off of trauma as a white person (just don't do it...).
2019-12-1051 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 2, Episode 6, "Give Mush the Rose"Sam talks about the cat she and her roommates rescued, why Kim Possible's nipples are ever so pointy, and High School Musical the Musical the Series. Karley tackles text anxiety and how after 20 winters, she still can't hang. #seasonaldepression
2019-11-1934 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 2, Episode 5, "We're All Virgins In One Way Or Another"Join us for a special spooky Halloween episode of She's Too Much where Karley and Sam talk about their Halloween plans, the media representation that Halloweentown provided and slut-shaming. Moral of the story: everyone's a little slutty, Halloween just makes it cooler, please let us and our confidence exist.
2019-11-0446 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 2, Episode 4, "They're Probably Going to Feel Your Nipples and Then Move On"Karley and Sam are back with no technical difficulties, only the type of crippling difficulties that seasonal affective disorder births. Karley talks manspreading, and why she is so guilty of it along with self-breast exams. Sam tackles female sexual empowerment media representation and how The Secret Life of the American Teenager scarred us all from doing what we all love.
2019-10-1855 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 2, Episode 3, "It Is All About Sex and Murder"In the third installment Karley and Sam have tech difficulties... again... so start at 30 seconds in. Karley discusses her issues with authority, her future therapy appointment and her ability to almost always feel nothing in her emotions but a sense of white noise. Sam comments on her newfound love, Gardien meatless taco meat and defends her lord and savior of sex and sultry desire, Riverdale, against the masses of criticism.
2019-10-1253 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 2, Episode 2, "Will You Make It On The Spaceship?"Karley discusses signing up for her first-ever therapy appointment and her personalized astrology playlist she paid three dollars for. Sam asks the long-lived question, can straight men dress? And we debate what redeeming qualities would let us on the spaceship once climate change takes over Earth. The only answer... fertility.
2019-10-0352 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 2, Episode 1, "I'm One Good Musical Away From Leaving Everything"Sam and Karley are back for season two of She's Too Much! They discuss senior year, female journalist source communication, and putting ourselves first.
2019-10-0343 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 1, Episode 5, "Yelling and Screaming"Join Melissa, Sam, and Karley as they say goodbye to their first season and farewell to Melissa as she graduates and starts her new life in Los Angeles. Karley takes off her auto-cap and discusses being a lowercase only lady, and we analyze why young women are fetishizing Ted Bundy post the release of the new Ted Bundy movie and debate if unpaid internships are fair. (Insider tip: they're not).
2019-10-0351 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much, Season 1, Episode 4, "That's My Son, Pink Is For Everyone"Join Sam, Karley, and Melissa as they discuss the new "f-word," sexualizing small children into dating, and our personal response to the song that gets each of us emotional... 'Nemo Egg"!
2019-10-0349 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much Season 1, Episode 3, "No Tea, Just Facts"Karley and Sam work through technical difficulties and discuss Lizzo's new album, empowering TV shows to watch, and eating on campus with eating disorders.
2019-10-0151 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much Season 1, Episode 2, "It's Puberty, Let's Learn"Sam, Karley and Melissa talk about Melissa's changing identity after attending the Master's tournament, how we received the sex talk through the gender binary, and drinking alcohol as a personality trait.
2019-10-0152 minShe's Too MuchShe's Too Much Season 1, Episode 1, "Concerned and Nervous"In the first-ever successfully recorded a episode of She's Too Much Sam, Karley and Melissa discuss how you end things with your sex friend, body positivity around America, and Joe Biden.
2019-10-0147 min