A Year from Now...: Recent Episodes
A Year from Now...
A Year from Now... is a time-traveling podcast that takes a snapshot of someone at the beginning of a journey, then jumps ahead one year to see how it all turned out.
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The final episode of Neurons, the batch of A Year from Now episodes dealing with mental stuff, is about a woman named Katherine. She suffered from intrusive thoughts, auditory hallucinations and command hallucinations but finally she was found a treatment that offered some hope. ECT, electro convulsive therapy. Along with those challenges she had a hidden shame, a secret she needed to get off her chest and it just so happened that a week before our first interview she did just that. Everything was looking up. How did things turn out? A year from now? It's heartbreaking but one of the more important and beautiful episodes covered so far on this show.Support the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch.Venmo - account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeswww.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/The music for this episode comes from MUSICAL CORPSES, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw
My friend Abu can be frustrating because he has all these ideas of how he'll change the world, and he has in small ways, but that's not enough. He has a kind of all-or-nothing state of mind. Saving the world sounds similar to gambling, if he's got one lifetime, one hand to play, better go all in, anything less would be a waste. This, IMO, hasn't been working.When I first interviewed him, it had been a couple years since he quit his job and, by my calculations, he was running out of money. You'd think it's not too hard to get a job but Abu has other mental things going on and the possibly of homelessness was a real concern for me. For Abu, not so much, which only made me more worried.Support the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch.Venmo - account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeswww.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/The music for this episode comes from MUSICAL CORPSES, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw
Sam walks us through what disassociating feels like. It's hauntingly similar to many daily events: day dreaming, commuting home and finding yourself not fully conscious of the ride, getting lost in thought about what you wish you would have said to that jerk that did something jerky to you. Take these normal events but then inflate them till squeeze out all other forms of thought and living. Pretty debilitating.in 2020 he, in a sense, returned to the scene of the crime. He was forced home after during the pandemic, living in a barn behind his parents home, and took up the challenge of dealing with the abuse, childhood and clinical malpractice as he tells it, head on. Did it work?A year later we find out. Spoiler... it kind of worked.Support the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch.Venmo - account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeswww.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/The music for this episode comes from MUSICAL CORPSES, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw
Not really part of the Neurons batch of episodes, sorry. We had a full length episode planned to release but something came up that prevented that, so here's a short piece about my friend and coworker Didi.
Didi is a bubbly fun loving man who works all the time and has a lot of responsibilities but, ironically, makes me feel like guilty about the fact that I don't work all the time and have barely any responsibilities. He's had a long journey to earn his happiness, which helps me appreciate mine.
This episode deals with various forms of abuse that can happen in a relationship.Devin is a twenty something in Gainsville Texas and he's got problems. A drinking problem, an OCD problem, and the problems that come with those problems. Many people on this show are strong people dealing with something a normal person might not be able to handle (or more accurately, how normal people are revealed to be quite strong after life throws them a challenge.) but Devin's problems, the oppression of his OCD, is on a different level. This show can be inspiring, but isn't meant to be inspiration... this episode in particular doesn't deliver too much warmth. It's rough. But there's truth in it and I appreciate have the chance to talk with Devin.
Amin often felt like he was in a video game, or that he was the only one that existed. That the world was either unreal or too real. When Amin first talked with me he was cooling off from a difficult year. His dad died, he was deported due to a mental crisis, and he was living in Saudi Arabia with his family but away from his friends. How will he be doing a year from now? Will his distortions of reality come back? Will he make friends? And what do we miss when we focus on the most extreme parts of a person?Support the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch.Venmo - account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeswww.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/The music for this episode comes from MUSICAL CORPSES, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw
PART TWO!I traveled to Kenya, England, and Belgium to visit friends and interview people about what they would like to see in a murder mystery. Going from former colony to colonizers I found surreal echoes between Agatha Christie's conception of wealth and empire and my own journey.This piece is part travel diary, part audiobook, and explores what we want out of a mystery, and what that means for how we see the world - or don't.Support A Year from Now... with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch.Venmo - account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeswww.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/
I traveled to Kenya, England, and Belgium to visit friends and interview people about what they would like to see in a murder mystery. Going from former colony to colonizers I found surreal echoes between Agatha Christie's conception of wealth and empire and my own journey. This piece is part travel diary, part audiobook, and explores what we want out of a mystery, and what that means for how we see the world - or don't.Support A Year from Now... with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch. Venmo - https://account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeshttps://www.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/
AYFN has to take a little more time to make the next batch of episodes, but in the mean time here's an experimental travel diary/murder mystery I made over the winter. Enjoy!Support the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch. Venmo - https://account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeshttps://www.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/
A Year from Now will be back in the spring of 2023 (hopefully) in the mean time, here's a special piece I, matthew schneeman lead producer of AYFN, made during a difficult winter last year.The night before Thanksgiving in 2021 I broke my right elbow. A car was running a red light and I braked, on my bike, and flipped over the handle bars. For the month and a half that I had a cast, which put my right hand out of commission, I wrote a song a day to see how different my composition would be if I wrote with my non-dominant hand. I thought I'd notice myself writing strange and different songs, but turns out, song writing, and thought itself, had always been strange and eerie. This is a dairy of that experiment.
Hi everyone, Hope you enjoyed the first batch of episodes for A Year from Now..., the ROMCOM suite. Next up is going to (for the time being) be called Neurons and it's all about people with very different brains and gifts and struggles that come with that. Stories like what it's like to have paranoid hallucinations and then you actually start getting stalked irl. But first we need to raise $3,000 so I can take the time off to edit the episodes. Please support if you can, share with your friends, rate and review of course. Thanks for your attention and openness to listen to a weird little show like AYFN. See you next year (but hopefully this spring! We gotta get that MONEY!)-matthewSupport the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch. Venmo - https://account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeshttps://www.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/
This week's episode concludes A Year from Now's... Romcom suite. Not many stories were that romantic and this week's episode is no exception. Sorry. Cate lives out in the bush in Australia. That's why in my notes I refer to her as 'Cate Bush'. The nic name doesn't fit, mostly because she's much more into classic rock. Doesn't matter. Her story? After fifteen years with an abusive man they have finally broken up and she became free. Time for her third act? How Cate got her groove back, perhaps? Not so fast. The carpet got pulled out from under her yet again. It's a hard but beautiful story.Support the show with a suggested one time donation at $27 or $5 per batch. Venmo - https://account.venmo.com/u/ayearfromnowPayPal - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ayearfromnowCheck in to see how much money we need to raise for the next round of episodeshttps://www.instagram.com/ayearfromnow_podcast/The music for this episode comes from DAW view, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw
This weeks' episode hovers over a happy, a wonderful, thing but a precarious thing. Jess, a woman who's been suffering from seizures for over two decades, just had a surgery that seemingly cured, or stopped her epileptic seizures. But, it was too early to tell if the procedure really had worked. It's a bit, as i said, precarious. Will Jess's seizures return? The backdrop to all of this is Jess's husband who has cared fro her, and she him, all this time. It's a love story so pleasant and loving that it'd make a horrible romcom because you'd have to roll credits after just five minutes. They met, they fell in love, they do fun stuff. To offset this overly cute couple, i include a short piece about my break up that happened in 2021.
Another love story for A Year from Now.... that is a love story if you affix fifteen asterisks to it. Romana Rattler from Pipestone Minnesota was in a relationship with a man locked up in South Carolina for years and when he got out he said he didn't want a 'long distance relationship.' Romona, heart broken but not stupid, let the guy go. Besides, with her grandkids, troubled son, and a trailer park to manage she didn't have room for anyone that flakey anyway. How will Romona do in the upcoming years? Find out on this weeks A Year from Now...Support the show by becoming a patron on Patreonwww.patreon.com/ayearfromnowOr a one time donation via Venmo @matthew-schneemanThe music for this episode comes from DAW view, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube:www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw
This is an independent podcast and so I need to do my best infomercial impression to convince you, the listener, to help pay for it.
This show will be released in suites, groups of five to six episodes based on a theme. This is mostly because I may have to pause to gather more money to be able to take time off from other work to make the episodes. I have thirty episodes planned, but it'll take time, and support, to make them. Please contribute!
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Welcome to the second episode of A Year from Now... This episode is about a twenty something with a traumatic brain injury. Many of us think of ourselves as a brain with a body attached to it. People used to believe to think out individuality came from our souls, but now i think we jam our selfhood into this electrified eight pound wrinkly sponge of fat stuck between our ears. What happens if that gets hurt? How do you live with that, if it's even you anymore.
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The music for this episode comes from DAW view, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw
Welcome to the first episode of A Year from Now... In this episode we follow a young man on a cross country road trip to meet his g/f of two weeks. What could go wrong?! Also, we open with a profile of the most delightful yet acerbic character in cooking, Jennifer Paterson of Two Fat Ladies.
Support the show by becoming a patron on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ayearfromnow Or a one time donation via Venmo @matthew-schneeman
The music for this episode comes from DAW view, a live improvised song creation collective. Watch the process on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6eKtclEX3BZReuDypE9fw