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theHURTCIRCUS
by Nicholas Ridiculous
Join me, Nicholas Ridiculous, on a conversational exploration of the cause and effect growing up in the child welfare industry can have. The stories and experiences, and how these systems help to make or break us. Welcome, to theHURTCIRCUS, my personal therapy.
Episodes
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041. THC: DANCING IN THE DARK WITH A LADY NAMED GEORGE
Well, well, well... here are back at it again! Like the rapscallion we is you know, put off the editing of this episode for far too long. Sometimes it's just too fresh you know? In today's episode we go back in time a wee bit to the aftermath of an "entanglement" I found myself in. Albeit...
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040. THC: LATE-TERM EVICTION
We back at it again! It is a funny thing, how we forget the value of our own voices. The importance of getting thoughts, feelings and situations out our heads. That is what this podcast was started for, an outlet to let out the bullshi*t that life seems to hurdle at us in a neverending test of...
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039. THC: VERSATILE TEACHINGS
In todays episode we discuss some strides in the arena of the modern pop-culture wars and independent mythmaking, how we don't have to always relinquish the things we hold dear, but create our own when they are destroyed. We also discuss some recent online research I have done into the Shaolin...
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038. THC: FAM INTERRUPTED
What is good ya'll? It's ya boyyy nicridic, aka Nicholas Ridiculous back with another one! The summer highateus is real this year. real life problems getting in the way of the creative expulsion I hope too endure. But alas, we are back with another episode lightly touching on some topics of...
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037. THC. FADED T-SHIRTS
AAAAAANNDDDD we're back folks, one lost episode later. The ides of digital reliance, ides? Ides. But alas, here we are for our 37th episode! Not the best track record but we here bb. In this episode we discuss the values of the things we were forced to forget, the subtle realizations of reality…
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036. THC: 31 & SPUN
Another one bites the dust; another episode, another year, like sand in the wind bb. Here we are, episode 36! And it just so happens the recording of this episode coincided with my birthday, April 22nd, so as usual we do a little birthday not-so-spectacular and just try and reminisce a bit on the...
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035. THC: Belated & Wasted
Here we are again folks! Better belated than not at all, as they say, but alas episode 35 is here. Today we sit down for a little coffee and pop-tart chat with our host Nicholas Ridiculous. We discuss the current state and transition of pop-culture, and the further decay that befalls beloved...
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034. THC: TAMED ANIMALS
Aren't we though? Here we are again with a late as funk episode, my B folks! In todays episode, we get into the trials and tribulations of modern life in the transition from lockdown living, to the new world order or whatever it is these days (daze?)... the fun of navigating adulthood in these...
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033. THC: a lame apocalypse
And another one! What's the happs m'cackle? In this episode of THC, we play a little catch up with the year. We get into the modern confusion that is; being human. Especially in terms of social aspects, and the current circumstances within out country at the moment. Divisive times spent on…
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032. THC: It's been fun, 2021
Happy New Year! Even though New Years is cancelled in Canada. :): Another one bites the dust, it is always a trip how they just go by faster and faster each go around. And in such weird times we find ourselves in, it's been fun to say the least... In this final episode of the year we get a little...
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031. THC: SW33T&S0UR
Oh fall, the seasons continue to change and so do we. In today's episode I sit down with a fellow artist, friend and former crown-ward Caterina Sinclair. We sit back and chit-chat about some of our own experiences navigating life after the child welfare industry. While editing this episode, I...
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030. THC: A Simulated Summer | 2021
Here we are, the end of the summer season 2021. What a blur that was huh? A season spent in a strange social limbo, content on a diet of mail order goods and direct to retina entertainment. And yet, the lowly creators crawling from the underbelly press onward! In today's late and distant episode…
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029. THC: Reclaiming the Narrative
Well, well, well, here we are again. Slow with them uploads, this is a late one. But alas, episode 29, welcome! In today's episode we get into some recent projects and outlooks in the world of lived experience experts. Reclaiming the Narrative is a new book project I am working on, we get into…
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028. THC: Oh... Canada...
In today's episode we get into some of the usual topics, play a little catch-up with the world and life. We contemplate some of the modern confusion in the world and how we celebrate a land that is so bathed in blood the flag is covered in red. The recent findings of residential schools and how...
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027. THC: Truant 514
Hello, hello and welcome back to theHURTCIRCUS. In our very late episode, we discuss the celebration of 5/14, Youth in Care Day here in Canada. Passions run high as they do with these things, discussing the overall disconnect of a community of disconnected people. With some Joseph Campbell wisdom...
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026. THC: Contact High III
Here we are at episode 26! Lockdown here in Ontario has been long, for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to live the movie Groundhog Day, we made it bb. In today's episode we get into how people who lack personal power enforce their will upon others, and how that power can be used…
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025. THC: i hate it here, but i love u
What is up my fellow kackolites! Here we are back again, discussing how life tends to force us to face the things we try and run from. Some recent situations where I had to deal with the same agency that disrupted my life so much, and how the faces change, the people change, but the practices...
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024. THC: Biennial BB
Happy Biennial episode ya'll! 2 years in the big tent, the road thus far may have been dreary, weird and inconsistent. But alas, tis the life folks. In today's low energy broadcast we take a little time to dissect the current view of things, look back on our journey so far here at theHURTCIRCUS.…
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023. THC: Dismal+
In an attempt to make a self imposed deadline to hit 24 episodes by our two year anniversary this March, we will be double dropping this month! Some tid-bit eps to touch base and get back into the groove of the circus! Today we discuss more on work-life, what it means to push beyond the safety of...
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022. THC: Hard Tardy '21
The circus has arrived! With a fashionably late entrance into 2021. Today we get into the false finish line we all seemed to see, some current work I am doing and the struggles of coming to grips with this new found professionalism in such a disconnected world. As usual, the energy picks up once…
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021. THC: Holidazed & Confused
At last, here we are... episode 21... the end of 2020. THE END IS NIGH. But, will that matter? We are still fluctuating in and out of a state of mental and physical lockdown. We all probably thought we would be done by now, but no. This time around we get into some topics of social service...
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020. THC: Welcome 2 the Island of Dipshit Boys
Ohh, the times they are a changin', huh? Join our host as we discuss the current social climate in a world of worlds, how our new found shared experience is being received. The challenges of stepping up to meet new responsibilities while navigating this new disconnected existence. After feeling...
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019. THC: Arvin
Well, well, well... here we are again. Can you rely on good intentions to change something you have no experience with? In this episode our host discusses relationships, personal and professional. The bartering of energies, time and experience. How the commodification of purpose has become a bit…
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018. THC: 2000LATE
Oh summer, where have you gone? How time has flown by these past few months. After much procrastination, we finally got our 18th episode done and edited. Our host discusses some, kind of, recent issues and how they correlate to ongoing systemic, and generational follies that have existed under…
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017. THC: HEReditary
Welcome, welcome, welcome one and all, to episode 17 of... theHURTCIRCUS! This time around the big tent, our host gets into some recent familial turmoil. How sometimes, you have to push through some hardship and discomfort to get to a better place, to open new lanes of communication. A bit of an...
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016. THC: Contact High II
What is the happs m'kackle? Welcome to our second installment of the Contact High series. It is a historical time these days we are living in, it is difficult to know how to create content and what to create that content around. We decided to continue with our scheduled episode but we still touch...
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015. THC: bird on the run
Coming to you folks from our bunker, sequestered and secluded, divided and conquered, most of us sit and wait. Wait for what my dear boy? Something. Unsure and inoculated by comfort, the quarantine times are upon us. But it doesn't stop everything! I sat down with an old friend and we discussed...
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014. THC: Like tears in the rain
Wild times, one part impending panic, one part utter boredom. We joked about cancelling this year, until it went and cancelled it's damned self. In our 14th episode, we touch on the current state of the world a little bit, the give and take of the universe, alongside some projects I am currently...
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013. THC: Drop Dead Fred
Lucky number 13, babeh! Here we are back again for another fresh episode. Today I get into a news story that caught my attention recently, a tragic example of the worst outcomes that can come with a life from the child welfare industry. I also get into the concept of the "imaginary mindset", how…
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012. THC: piss & vinegar
Ha-Za! Six months later, and we finally reach the end of January 2020! Yes, yes folks, we made it. And what a wild one it has been, the world is in a funny time. Like many, my head has been all over the damn place. I use this episode to take note of some personal barriers I have been battling…
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011. THC: Wishbones & Giblets
That solo deuce, we made it folks! Episode 11, the last episode of 2019 and the first episode of 2020! Happy New Year! It's the bits n' pieces, odds n' ends episode. Leftovers from the end of 2019 I had yet to put into episodes, and some fresh drops as usual, babehh! I get into some thoughts on…
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010. THC: Double Dragon
Dem double digiesss! Hello folks, and welcome to the 10th installment of this manic ass show. We finally managed to dig up a conversation with my modern gentleman of a brother, Anthony Spezzano. Our paths may have started around the same point, but oh how they diverged. Estranged by a system who...
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009. THC: bad bones, babeh
Episode 9 has finally arrived. After a bit of a hiatus, we are back. Coordination and conscious energy consumption is key people! It is a process though, even still. In this episode we discuss a small speech I gave at an event for supporting youths transitioning out of care and other marginalized...
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008. THC: the sh!t luck ballad of lily dawn
In our octuple episode, we discuss some work I have been doing in regards to helping youth transition out of systemic lives into the freedom of young adult life. As well as the issues of experiential knowledge versus theoretical, and placement of power of personal desires as opposed to power to...
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007. THC: silly boy
In this episode, my intentions were to discuss generational inheritance and how past actions can echo through our lives right down to our DNA. My intentions were to play a sit down I did with my grandmother for the second half of the episode. But, once again, ol' Nicholas Ridiculous got caught up...
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006. THC: Contact High I
In our sextuple episode, it is our first contact high episode. I share some of my first experiences with drug exploration, and what feelings lead me there. When your only constant has ever been you, how do you take a break from that? Stepping-out here, and stepping-in there. When does the coping...
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005. THC: Shame, Less
In our 5th episode, nicridic hits it hard with a talk of shame, and how we seem to gain it and carry it on the road through the system. Pig metaphors and wishes never granted. Passions run high and emotions show a little on the the topic of hereditary shame and affliction passed on through misfit...
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004. THC: April's Fool
Oh April, I always find it to be such a reflective month. A time of many endings and beginnings and just an overall sense of what has come and past. I dive into the difficulties of self celebration when it comes to things like birthdays, and how that may sometimes affect development of…
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003. THC: Cycles & Broken Smiles
In our third episode, I spend some time discussing podcasts I enjoy; This Past Weekend, Dopey, and Broken Harts. I also talk about how cycles tend to repeat themselves, and how being a witness to somebody experiencing the same trials that you had can mess with your head a little bit. How do you...
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002. THC: Jaded Thursdays, Thursdays, Thursdays
In our second episode, I parse through my own past a bit more. Share some ideas on the split that occurs in life, the Mogli Effect, and existing in the aftercare limbo. Just some guy trying to figure out the pieces, and put 'em together. Share some stories of early life with a young mother trying...
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001. THC: boxes of soap
Bare with me over these first episodes, as I attempt to rummage through my own history within the child welfare system, and find my podcast legs. I will be attempting to draw conclusions and make connections between past experiences and current behaviors, share some stories from days long passed,...
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000. THC: Hello
Just a little trailer letting everybody know what we are about over here at theHURTCIRCUS. [email protected] @nicholasridiculous www.nicholasridiculous.ca www.underbellysociety.com www.dimebagcrew.com
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Join me, Nicholas Ridiculous, on a conversational exploration of the cause and effect growing up in the child welfare industry can have. The stories and experiences, and how these systems help to make or break us. Welcome, to theHURTCIRCUS, my personal therapy.
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