The Rad N' Bad Podcast by Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero isn’t your average ABA podcast, it’s a full-blown wake-up call. These two BCBAs from Hickory Learning Group are smashing through outdated norms and calling out the BS in the field. No fluff, no sugar-coating, just raw, unfiltered truth about what ABA should be. They challenge you to think, question the “why,” and push past complacency. If you're ready to disrupt the status quo and make this field better for clients and practitioners alike, buckle up, Rad N' Bad is here to raise hell and raise standards.
Rad N Bad Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero from Hickory Learning Group
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The Rad N' Bad Podcast by Sean Yocum and Michael Carrero isn’t your average ABA podcast, it’s a full-blown wake-up call. These two BCBAs from Hickory Learning Group are smashing through outdated norms and calling out the BS in the field. No fluff, no sugar-coating, just raw, unfiltered truth about what ABA should be. They challenge you to think, question the “why,” and push past complacency. If you're ready to disrupt the status quo and make this field better for clients and practitioners alike, buckle up, Rad N' Bad is here to raise hell and raise standards.
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
Episode 40: Who the Hell is Dr. Erin Moran? From Backpacking Kazakhstan to Dismantling Corporate ABA
<p>Most people in the tech space claim they understand the frontline trenches. They haven’t.</p><p>This week, Sean and Mike pull back the curtain on the corporate contingencies crippling clinical quality, and they are joined by someone who has lived a literal clinical Odyssey: Dr. Erin Moran, Director of Clinical Innovation at Hi-Rasmus.</p><p>Dr. Moran didn’t just climb a corporate tech ladder. She has been thrown into a room with 38 six-year-olds in a Thai port city with zero support. She has backpacked into the freezing winter of Eastern Kazakhstan with nothing but shorts and a tank top to build parent-led behavior programs from scratch, getting her passport stamped in a dark back alley just to help moms who were told their children's autism was their fault. She has sat on the highly critical academic stages of London as the only BCBA in the room, defending the core science against massive systemic stigma.</p><p>Sean, Mike, and Erin strip away the marketing fluff and toxic positivity to expose the systemic failures of modern, commercialized operations, including:</p><ul><li><p><strong>The Rebrand Trap:</strong> Why the anti-ABA movement isn't attacking our scientific principles, but rather a rigid, high-hour commercialized therapy model that operates like a corporate religion.</p></li><li><p><strong>The 40-Hour Checkbox Crisis:</strong> Tearing down the passive, uninspiring video training models that are producing catastrophic 18% RBT exam pass rates across major national providers, and why real Behavior Skills Training (BST) cannot be scaled through a computer screen.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Circus Trick of Dependency:</strong> Why an intervention that only works when a clinician is standing in the room is a total failure, and how Erin used pure science to train Kazakhstani mothers to become the university professors training the next generation of therapists.</p></li><li><p><strong>Engineering Software with Science:</strong> How Erin is taking her global, boots-on-the-ground experience to design data systems that eliminate administrative headaches, supercharge supervisor feedback loops, and give BCBAs their time back to focus on the work that actually matters.</p></li></ul><p>Stop hiding behind empty corporate buzzwords and traditionalist dogma. If your therapy requires rigid compliance and endless paperwork, your environmental engineering is broken. The science doesn’t choose a side—it analyzes contingencies. Tune in to hear how a global perspective is rewriting the status quo of standard industry technology.</p><p>Stay bold. Stay contrarian. Stay Rad N Bad.</p><p><strong>https://www.linkedin.com/in/emoran1/</strong></p><p><br></p>
June 8, 2026
Episode 39: No Man's Land-The Forbidden E-Word: Why You Can’t Escape Extinction
<p>In this episode of the No Man’s Land series, Sean and Mike tackle the 'forbidden E-word' of ABA: Extinction. While cancel culture and critics often paint extinction as cold or outdated, the guys pull the curtain back to show that it’s not a trend—it’s a law of behavior.</p><p>Whether you call it 'planned ignoring' or 'compassionate support,' if you change a reinforcement contingency, you’re implementing extinction. Sean and Mike dive into the messy reality of extinction bursts, the 'vending machine' analogy of human behavior, and the controversial rise of 'Kind Extinction.' They argue that the science hasn't changed; our clinical skill just finally caught up. Stop avoiding the uncomfortable and start understanding the mechanics of how learning actually happens when the 'house rules' change.</p>
May 29, 2026
Episode 38: No Man's Land-The Myth of Ascent: Why Choice is Just a Contingency
<p>Is "assent" the future of ethical ABA, or is it a clinical retreat into "fragile tolerance"?</p><p>In this installment of the No Man’s Land series, Sean Yocum and Mike Carrero step directly into one of the most emotionally charged debates in behavioral health. While the field currently treats assent as an ethical evolution, Sean and Mike strip away the marketing and the buzzwords to look at the raw mechanics underneath.</p><p>From a radical behaviorist perspective, does "assent" even exist? Or is it simply a hypothetical construct—a label we’ve placed on behavior that is actually being shaped by environmental contingencies?</p><p><strong>Sean and Mike dive deep into:</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>The Reality Gap:</strong> Are we preparing learners for a world that requires persistence and resilience, or are we engineering "safe spaces" that fail to translate to the real world?</p></li><li><p><strong>Buzzwords vs. Science:</strong> Why "Trauma-Informed Care" and "Assent-Based Care" are often just rebrands for what should have been good behavioral design all along.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Middle Ground:</strong> Moving past the extremes of forced compliance and unlimited refusal to focus on shaping, reinforcement schedules, and functional communication.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Radical Lens:</strong> Reframing refusal not as a philosophical choice, but as critical data that tells us exactly where our behavioral design is failing.</p></li></ul><p>Stop asking if your learner "assents" and start asking what your environment is reinforcing. It’s time to move beyond the "feel-good" terminology and get back to the science of shaping independence.</p>
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