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No One Gets Well in a Cell Sep 08, 2020

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Introducing Emily Galvin Almanza - a drop dead gorgeous bad ass warrior for truth and justice. She's been fighting against the lies, inequalities and traps that exist inside or "system of justice," for over a decade.

Now, I thought I knew a lot about what it actually takes to be a public defender, the person who is called to represent anyone that cannot afford their own lawyer. But I HAD NO IDEA just how deep and dark the rabbit hole goes.

This Zena Warrior Princess badass super hero has taken what she's learned in years of fighting the blatantly racist carceral system and figured out a way to do the help that actually helps.

She founded partners for justice, a all hands on deck wrap around service that caters to people who get ensnarled in the bogus, unfair, predatory legal system and helps make sure that the ramifications for being arrested for being Black on a Tuesday don't destroy peoples entire lives.

I learned SO much from her and I think that beyond defund the police, the thing we really need to be figuring out is how do we repair the limit-less harm that has already happen to someone once the police enter their lives.

The trickle down effect of the over policing of Black neighborhoods further traps people in systems of poverty effects millions of people in the US and has been ripping the very fabric of families and communities across our nation.

So sit back, relax and delve into the wild and beautiful mind of Emily, one of the most impressive humans I've had the pleasure of meeting in quite some time.

Check out all their work here:

www.partnersforjustice.com

Her twitter: @galvinalmanza

Instagram: @jackhotel7

Information to donate to bail funds

Information on how to register to vote: www.voteproud.us

Information on how to vote for DAs:

Information on the LA Da Race

Watch the movie the 13th for more information on Black codes on Netflix.

Check out more photos of Emily at work on my website: www.zoenightingale.com

FOLLOW ME! Instragam: @drznightingale

Edited with love and care by: Emily Armstrong

Music: The Way: Noah Lampert (check out his podcast at www.syncronicity.com

Bassem Youssef's Plants to Change the World Aug 18, 2020

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Hello! I am delighted to bring you yet another podcast with the one and only Bassem Youssef, who was at one time the Jon Stewart of the Middle East.

A pediatric heart surgeon living in Cairo, he started an underground YouTube show ala the Daily show, poking fun at the Arab world and bringing to light some of the vast injustices that were happening in his country. He got so popular underground that he was offered a real show on a network and at one point had 40 million people tuning into his show.

However, making fun of dictators comes with a cost, and Bassem was forced to flee Egypt with his family because of very real death threats and an impending prison sentence.

He has moved to California and is launching an entire new project. It's called Plant B. It is his new mission to help people overcome illness through a plant based diet. I'll let him explain to you all the benefits of going green, but suffice it to say, the case for a plant based diet has never made more sense to me.

Thank you Bassem, for your continued appearance on my podcast, I am always left smarter by simply being around you.

Check out his website:

www.plantb.tv

His instagram: @bassem

Twitter: @byouseff

Check out my website www.zoenightingale.com

Instagram: @drznightingale

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Music:

The Way: Noah Lampert

Poolside: Harvest Moon

Edited with love care and patience by: EMILY MOTHAFUCKING ARMSTRONG

The New Woke Order Jul 08, 2020

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This is comedian, master yogi, entrepreneur, bitcoin lover, and semi professional dancer Kevin Lance Murray. Kevin has been a friend of mine for quite some time and through our friendship the conversation of race comes up pretty much constantly.

Kevin has had a unique upbringing, born to Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, he was moved to Westchester, CT a predominantly white city when he was a boy. His parents specifically moved there in hopes that he could be in a White community with an access to "White" education. He has been straddling a difficult reality where he felt like he was never "Black" enough for Black people, and was way to Black for White people.

Kevin has always been an amazing resource to me, for pretty much everything in my life. He fills my life with so much joy and knowledge and I just thought I would check in with him about how he feels about what's going on in the world today. He's also, fucking hilarious. So, sit back and spend a half hour with one of my favorite people on the planet.

Check out his instagram at @kevinlancemurray

Check out my website www.zoenightingale.com

Check out my instagram at @drznightingale

Music: Barbara Lewis: Hello Stranger

Brighter Days - Dajae Underground Mix

You are not Powerless- YOU ARE POWERFUL - Pride 2020 Jun 29, 2020

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Meet Krystal Joy Brown. A drop dead gorgeous dynamite powerhouse who before Corona hit was starring in Hamilton on Broadway. During Quarantine, she like many, after being bombarded with horrific consecutive murders and violence against the black community decided enough was enough. She decided to organize her very own rally dedicated to celebrating all Black Lives and specifically our friends in the Black Trans community. She started by researching what her rights to assemble were, and somehow piece-mealed her very own giant BLM/pride parade. Because of Corona, she couldn't get a parade permit, but that didn't stop her.

Instead she found police mediators so on the day she could handle whatever problems may come up with the fact she built a full stage and sound system in the middle of Time Square and then led almost a thousand people down 7th Avenue ( in the middle of the street!) with a marching band all the way until we got to Stone Wall Inn.

IT WAS MAGIC. Incredibly organized, full of love and color and cheer. There were crafting stations were you could make your own signs, tons of snacks and drinks and tons of Broadway performers doing spoken word poetry, songs and dance that brought me to tears.

Everyone was wearing masks and there were people walking through the parade squirting hand sanitzer randomly on you. You could also get free Conona and HIV tests before we started walking. It was just everything. I was so impressed.

Once we got to the legendary Stonewall, there was another sound system set up and we had a full blown dance and block party with some of the best trained Voguers I've ever seen. Now I'm a good dancer, but they literally were so good, all I could do was watch and fan them.

It was a true testament to what one woman can do with a ton of chutzpah and a little bit of elbow grease. WE CAN ALL DO THIS. Don't get complacent. The time is now, donate, rise up, speak your truth, educate yourself and we have a tiny shot and maybe, just maybe, reshaping this world into a place that's more equitable for everyone.

THANK YOU KRYSTAL!!

Check out:

www.claimmorespacenow.com

www.broadwayforracialjustice.com

www.thekjb.com

@Krystaljoybrown on instagram

Music: Hell You Talmbout ft. Wondaland Artist Collective

The Best is Yet to Come - Mr. President

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www.zoenightingale.com

Oh NO! Am I Amy Cooper?! Jun 17, 2020

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Interested in a lesson in white privilege? Oh good. I've got just the person to talk to, my friend Shanterra McBride. A badass Texan educator that I've known since I was a tween. She's my sister's bestie, and they've worked together for years trying to bring justice and dignity to schools and kids all over the country for decades.

I'm starting with someone that I know, well, that can help me have this conversation because even though I am a liberal NYC person who believes that they are consistently doing their best, I know I can do better. Furthermore, embarrassingly, before talking to her, I actually didn't really consider myself a white person.

Yes, yes I know, this could sound crazy. But growing up Jewish, I never considered myself in alignment in any way with the blood soaked hands of the original sinners that built this country. If anything I grew up thinking that I was an ally to the Black community. But that doesn't mean that I haven't benefited from white privilege.

My ability to say whatever I wanted to whoever I wanted (especially to people in positions of power) originates from there, and I embarrassingly mostly just attributed that to internal charisma.

The fact that I can do and say the kinds of things I have said to the police without fear and walk away unharmed, and without a record, stems directly from there.

So I bring to you a somewhat awkward (on my part) and hopefully informational conversation with someone who's got many messages to share, but a one that is really somehow obvious only after having this conversation is that white people need to stop asking their black friends what to do. You have a supercomputer in your hand at all times, you want to find ways to educate yourself, ask google!

You want to protest and find ways to show solidarity? GOOGLE. You want to donate money to causes in the Black Lives Matter space? Once again, google is here to help all white people stop outsourcing the actual work all of us need to do to be better allies to all communities. Oh yeah, and just because you posted on social media does not mean you are doing enough. Protest - Vote - Donate - Educate Yourself

Check out her Marvelous University here: www.marvelousuniversity.com

@marvelous_shanterra

Twitter: @shanterramcb

FB: Marvelous University

Link to cheat sheet on how you can educate yourself:

Anti Racism Cheat Sheet

This is the best protest Instagram account out there right now for NYC: @justiceforgeorgenyc

If you want resources to fight for justice for Breonna Taylor www.fightofrbreonna.org

Music: Hell You Tambout - Janelle Monae f. Wondaland Records

The Dark Truth About Fake News Jun 06, 2020

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As a podcaster, in moments like this, you want more than ever to be able to take your microphones to the streets and be able to amplify as many voices as you possibly can and try to help further causes like Black Lives Matter.

However, I am deep in Colorado on road trip with my entire family with almost no access to the internet or phone service so for now, I am proceeding with another podcast that was scheduled for this week and will have to wait to join in the protests when I return to NYC this Monday.

I promise you, I will do everything in my power to see the systemic racism that has plagued our country since it's inception stopped. I will do it with storytelling, fundraising, protesting, and getting representatives elected who can actually change the laws that have for centuries purposefully tried to suppress, oppress and incarcerate the African American community.

But for now, I bring you the story of Dakota Gruener, the founder and CEO of ID2020. A person that I am honored to call a friend and a woman who is doing work that I think is exceptionally important. For the last four years she has been a champion of the voiceless, working tirelessly to provide vaccines, upward mobility and resources to the world's most vulnerable all around the world.

Earlier this year, she was targeted by none other than my least favorite person ever, Alex Jones on his garbage show Info Wars. Because of the nonsense he spun, a slew of internet trolls threatened her life and I am very very angry about it.

Normally I wouldn't even want to bring any kind of light to the heartless, disgusting, lie infested work that he does, but this time I felt like I needed to because it's a ripe opportunity to shed light on exactly the kind of poison people like him are spewing into the world.

He entangled her in a conspiracy theory so idiotic and insane that I wanted to give her an opportunity to explain that work that she actually does, and in doing so hopefully help continue to bring awareness to her life mission.

I love you Dakota.

Lastly, fuck you Alex Jones. Fuck Info Wars and fuck all of you soulless internet trolls who hide behind your lies and conspiracies and turn fear into dollar signs, you disgust me.

Stay safe, get out there, pick up your signs, make your voice heard, fight for the future and the present you want to live in.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE

Check out her work at www.ID2020.org

Donate to the George Floyd Gofund me here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Other Organizations you can support:

Support the Block

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Black Lives Matter

www.8cantwait.org

Music:

Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye

April 26th 1992 - Sublime

Susanne Bartsch vs. Corona - Taking the Party from The Club to the Couch May 28, 2020

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Hello hello hello!

I am beyond delighted to bring you my next episode with the Queen of NYC, Susanne Bartsch. I shouldn't need to fill you in on who she is, but to sum her up in one word, it's ICON. If her name is unfamiliar to you, just do a quick google search, and you'll get a faint idea of the kind of lioness you're about to listen to. For more info you can also check out the Netflix documentary about her called ON TOP, that will make you feel like the least fashionable person in the entire world.

This podcast has one purpose only, to promote her next level online parties, which she has put on every Thursday since Typhoon Corona washed up upon our shores and eviscerated our ability congregate together.

Corona has effected all of us differently, but there is one community that has been effected dramatically, the arts. NYC is home to some of the best and brightest underground stars on the planet, and they rely on parties to make their living. They work their asses off, literally, and most of them don't have cushions of support to fall back on when things get tough.

Artists need our help, while they are usually the fiercest people in the room, they are exceptionally vulnerable to a pandemic of this kind and can use all the love and support they can get.

She is looking for a sponsor, to provide a small amount of money to pay the artists and Dj's she employs for these events, as well as people from around the world to tune in and join her Zoom revolution.

So, here are the links for all of the next level projects she has put together during Quarantine, not to mention links to the masks and t-shirts she's also produced because she was NOT Netflix and chillin' during Quarantine, she was hustling.

I love you Susanne, thank you for making the world a brighter, sparklier, more wonderful place one party at a time.

LOVE ZOE

PS HER PARTY IS TONIGHT GET ON THAT SHIT. 9 - 11 pm eastern. It's the most fun you'll ever have on Zoom.

Bartschland Strip Down:

Https://DragFor.fans/bartschlandstripdown

On Top:

Https://susannebartsch.eventbrite.com

Website:

Https://susannebartsch.com

Face Masks:

Https://susannebartsch.com/face-mask

Instagram:

@bartschland

@bartschlandstripdown

Follow Zoe! @drznightingale

website: www.zoenightingale.com

Music: Paris is Burning: Lady Hawke

Keep On: D Train

The Matryoshka - Human Edition May 21, 2020

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Introducing - Justin Jedlica - the human Ken Doll.

A plastic surgery aficionado who to date had over 800 procedures on his entire body. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, you name it, Justin has invented a way to modify it.

Justin has been featured on countless interviews and TV programs, all which bottle him up into this packaged person, and routinely hyper fixates on his bod mod and rarely deigns to go beyond surface level to explore the bubbling geyser of identity, gender, abuse and sexuality struggles he has faced throughout his life. The more I learn about the pressures facing the LGBTQ+ community, the more I am blown away by the strength it requires to stand up to the prison like standards most cultures put around sexuality and stand proud and tall and say listen, this is who the fuck I am, deal with it.

He is fascinating, and an incredible storyteller, and I am so thankful to him that he allowed me to meet the tiniest doll inside of him.

Follow him @justinjedlica

his website: www.justinjedica.com

Follow me! @drznightingale

My website: zoenightingale.com

Music: Something About You: Hayden James

Bourgie, Bourgie - John David & Monster Orchestra

Edited by Emily B. Armstrong

The Boy Who Cried Botox May 14, 2020

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Todo, I am definitely not in New York anymore. I AM IN LA...and LA is a WILD. I've been here for two months now, and I still feel like Mork, but without a Mindy.

It's this bizzaro combination of lush nature contrasted with super ugly highways and strip malls, poverty, new money, old money, itty bitty dogs, over caffeinated mountain bikers, hot yoga moms who don't vaccinate their babies but believe in the healing power of crystals, dumb as actual rocks super babes, brilliant artists, lovely hippies, sick street art, incredible tacos, looming mountain ranges, waterfalls, homelessness and dashed dreams - OH and by the way, EVERY SINGLE DAY IS THE SAME WEATHER. I can't explain how weird that is to me. Same temp, same sun, same same same all day every day. All of this I could handle, but my next two podcasts, cemented for me that I am in fact in a 4th dimension.

Now, I originally was just going to interview Justin Jedlica, who was baptized, "The Human Ken Doll," by none other than Babs Walters herself. Why may you ask! Well, it's because Justin is the king of Body Modification.

Justin, has had 800 different procedures to augment and perfect his body. Justin is fascinating, incredibly charismatic, and was truly a joy to be around. After I was done with our interview, he introduced me to Tyler, his room mate, who at 22, was recovering from a bicep implantation. Yes, you read that correctly.

I am fascinated by this entire subculture because I grew up in Washington D.C, a town famous for troll looking people who funnel all the time attractive people use to do things like fuck other hot people or go for convertible rides into accumulating massive amounts of education, and power, so they can eventually fuck hot people and go on convertible rides.

The most amount of plastic surgery I ever saw as a kid was when a couple girls in my school got the Heeb cut right on out of their nose, returning with a snozz you could ski off of and everyone, and I mean everyone, would gossip about it. Plastic surgery was not cool. Cool was getting a good country in Model U.N.

Now, I am not one to judge. Everyone gets to do whatever they want to their body. Your body, your choice. Period. But I must say that the next two episodes really confused me.

Anyway, if you want to know more about Justin & Tyler....

Tyler: @tylerkd97

Justin: @JustinJedlica

Website: www.justinjedlica.com

As always sending you my love, and virtual hugs wherever you may be in this big beautiful planet of ours.

Take care of yourself, spread joy and light. No one needs more darkness right now. If you need help.

I MADE MY FIRST SPOTIFY PLAYLIST!!! Check out all the songs I used to dance too when I was a Rave baby many, many, moons ago.

https://bit.ly/letsravelikeits2012

Music from episode: Twilight Zone Theme Song

Coma Cat: Tensnake

Instagram: drznightingale

Website: www.zoenightingale.com

Debbie Does Downtown Abby - Love in the time of Corona Ep. 2 May 08, 2020

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Greeting and salutations you gorgeous homebodies.

Can you believe it's May! What the actual fuck. When has time ever been so elastic yet so rigid? I got lost in the woods for a couple weeks with zero internet access and way to many lizards to look at and once again dropped the ball on my storytelling duties but like the great backstreet boys before me I am BACK!

So next up we have the fearless leader of the Skirt Club - Genevieve LeJeune. This is not Ms LeJune's first time gracing my podcast, and I'm delighted to be able to catch up with her and share with you what one does when their companies bread and butter comes from bi curious female only sex parties.

Yes, skirt club is a genius society where women who have always wanted to dip their toes into the warm folds of multiple labias can go to put on 400 dollar lace under pants, sip pink champagne, nibble raspberries and then get laid down gently on 4000 thread count satin sheets and get face fucked by women of all shapes and sizes!

Doesn't that just sound like the best! But wait, there's more! They have fabulous articles, interviews and classes you can take to connect to your inner and outer Yoni power and meet other like minded sexually free lady lionesses.

So, enjoy this next episode, which hits many very serious and important topics such as, sex toys, mental health, clit types, porn, love and marriage.

Thank you SKIRT CLUB!!!

Check out the other episodes I did about my time trying to participate an all female gang bang right here!

https://soundcloud.com/zoe-nightingale/sets/i-kissed-a-girl-and-i-liked-it

Check out all their virtual offerings here!

https://skirtclub.co.uk/home

Check out my website www.zoenightingale.com

My instagram: @drznightingale

Music: I think we're alone now - Tiffany

Deeper and Deeper - Madonna

CHECK OUT THE SATIFYER - BEST SEX TOY EVA = https://us.satisfyer.com/us/

Photo courtesy of: Skirt Club photographer: Victoria Dawe