Bald, Blind, and Buddies
Hosted by John Boland and Timothy Cordes and Tim Cordes · Timothy Cordes and John Boland
5.0from 135 ratings
- 130
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 135
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Bald, Blind, and Buddies
Liberal v. conservative, right, left, or libertarian. Join a thoughtful discussion with Timothy Cordes, a blind psychiatrist, and John Boland, a bald alum of the London School of Economics, who don't agree on much, but always agree to serve up their ideas with friendship and humor. ideasfirst.substack.com (https://ideasfirst.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Timothy Cordes and John Boland
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 May 2024
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 130 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Devices and the youth mental health crisis
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Lane Johnson’s retirement spurs a discussion of athlete mental health.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Senate ignores war and economy to “fix” college sports with the Protect College Sports Act.
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Devices and the youth mental health crisis
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So an example I'll use is in the UK. They found that one of the problems they have with suicides in the United States is that we get prescriptions, and I get this, I do mail order. So you get 90 days of your prescriptions. So if you're having a real bad day and you have 88 pills left, you can just take all 88 at once. You can just pour it in and wash it down with some water, right? How did the UK health system deal with this? They did those punch tabs, the one where you have to punch each individual one. Blister packs, yeah. Is that what they're called? Yep. And by simply doing that and causing the person to do that extra, whatever, 20 seconds or a minute or whatever it may be of labor, it actually rewires people's thinking and it drove down significantly. […]
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- Andrea Clements
- Peter Cordes
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 23 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 112 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100
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- Quality
- 56
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 67
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John Boland and Timothy Cordes and Tim Cordes host the show. Published by Timothy Cordes and John Boland.
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