Episode 1: PROLOGUE

Empowered Sleep Apnea

[For a full PDF Transcript of this episode including cartoons, click HERE!]
Empowered Sleep Apnea is back...and it's time to leave the Island!
Sleep Apnea, as a diagnosis...as a label...means many things to many people. It has a thousand faces. Moreover, it seems like everywhere you go, there's somebody else telling you that they have the answers...and, somehow, it seems like someone is always trying to sell you something...
In this Season 2 PREMIERE, join Dr. Dave McCarty for a balloon ride of a different color, as he chronicles his two-year post-clinical journey through music, time, space, and friendship to try to find a language that ties us all together.
Cartoons featured in today's episode can be viewed on our website! A full PDF transcript of this episode can be downloaded by clicking HERE :)

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Chapters

1. "Change the Channel!" (opening sequence!) (00:00:00)

2. Safe Words! (00:00:28)

3. Season Premiere (00:00:58)

4. A Brief Introduction to the Friendship Thing (00:01:07)

5. "Collaboration" and Silos (00:05:50)

6. The School of Rock (00:07:44)

7. Steam Trains, Deafness, and Rock-Throwing (00:08:48)

8. The Empathy Spy (00:09:37)

9. The Silos of Sleep Medicine (00:11:28)

10. How Silos Behave (00:17:32)

11. In Between the Silos (00:20:50)

12. The Tragic Tale of Ignac Semmelweiss (00:21:32)

13. Dishing the Tragic (00:31:04)

14. The Frankenstein Cartoon (00:31:57)

15. The Blue Balloon Solution (00:33:39)

16. A Patient-Empowering Meta-Language (00:35:51)

17. Rocket Fuel (00:37:56)

18. Cue Rad Theme Music and Closing Credits (00:39:24)

19. Sleep Medicine Dad Joke (00:40:50)

20. Change the Channel! (00:41:15)