Hey you! Hahaha! Hey hey! Hey! In this last episode of Where Are You From? here, John did ask local television anchor and local television host Ashlyn Hill to meet with him, and to think about, or to seriously, seriously wonder about what it may be like for someone to have to work, and work very, very hard to become a fixture or a staple, or a vital, vital and relied upon part or partner within a brand new community or town! Wow! Wow! Wow! And the thoughts and the answers and the responses that did come up, or that were put forth will really, really, really make you think there! Hahaha! Yes! Yes they will! https://www.valleynewslive.com/video-gallery/news/north-dakota-today/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/wnDuEAtWDso

Hello hello! Ho! Hello straight away, and let us get right down to business huh, ha, or small business here on this episode of this Where Are You From? series with John stopping by Replay Games Downtown Fargo, and chitchatting with owner Cassidy Schnase about some funny, and some nostalgic, and some totally, totally philosophical and ethical, and moral, and community-related or community-based, or sensitive issues or considerations! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! Like, this entire episode was a huge, huge, huge win for communication, or for communicating our own thoughts and our own values, and for memory, or for remembering, and for not letting go of what it is that is supposed to be so, so very, very, very important to us! Yes, it was! It was! https://www.replaygames.us/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/xExjQE5w7g8

Hey now! Haha! Hello! Hello! And what a conversation that I was that John did have himself with Cassie Valenzuela, president of the Red River Valley Asperger-Autism Network in Fargo, and a parent of children with their own particular or specific and varying, varying needs! Parenting and protecting our children or our kids was discussed or talked about, yes, yes, and the idea, or the concept or hope and hopes for fairness and equality and opportunity was emphasized as well! And of course, like, of course John and Cassie did ponder what it is that life itself would be like if we all were immediately a little more like Batman y’know! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Ha! What is it that that would be like for sure! https://rrvan.org/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4pdsEV7RM

Hi there! Hi! Haha! And hey, hey, hey! Artist and art educator and friend Chelsea Lee did virtually catch up with John some time ago now, while it was so that he was at his apartment in South Moorhead, Minnesota, and the two former classmates and coworkers and collaborators did discuss what fame and what celebrity and what popularity are, and how it is and where it is that they may begin in our society, and how often it is that some of us do chase after them, or seek them out, and try and try and try to be in the spotlight, and be seen! http://chelsealeeartist.com/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/vzcy7OdjDVk

Hey hey there now! Ho! Ho! Ho! John and Brian Clark, behavioral specialist and owner of Beyond Behavior did get together at Roasted Rail Coffee House in Dilworth, Minnesota, and the two of them did visit about how special it is and how valuable it is that John is himself, and how aware and how authentic, and how committed and supportive each one of us can be if we do mind our surroundings, and if we do mind our manners, and if we do practice mindful and respectful and kind, kind, kind and active and wise, and fulfilling types of behavior and conduct and methods of expressing ourselves, and interpreting the world and the circumstances around us! Sure! https://beyondbehavior.org/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_NrblKbLtA

Hey hey! Hey! The director of Plains Art Museum Andy Maus did allow me to and you to down with him, and he and John did converse about the question that is the title of this series, “Where are you from?” And what it is that it can be like to appear to not fit in completely, and not be just like everyone else, and how invisible or unnoticed it can be that some people with physical and with intellectual disabilities can be! And how it is that art itself does not have to be from one place in particular, or from one time or one context, or even from one city, state, or continent! No! No! No, it does not! https://plainsart.org/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/dWYnX4tagu8

Hey! Hey! Here in this first episode of this eighth season of the Where Are You From? web series, John does sit down with his father and with Ashley Thornberg on the local radio program Main Street, and the three of these inquisitive and creative and personable, personable, personable people do engage in a conversation about the exciting and the heartwarming and fanciful podcast Davey Bee’s Hit Song Vault that is being promoted and being supported by Prairie Public, Fargo-Moorhead’s own Public Broadcasting Service station, and just what it is like to be a family of entertainers and broadcasters, and really, really really very kind and courteous and original storytellers! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! What a great, great, great, great way to begin the season here huh! Whoa! https://news.prairiepublic.org/podcast/main-street (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoLFngXk4Rc

Hey! Hey did you think that you would not be seeing anymore Where Are You From? episodes anytime soon? Well forget about that, because here is the eighth season of the widely popular and very, very, very illuminating and fun web series produced by John David Berdahl! Yes! Yes! Yes! In this season, John will be speaking to art museum directors and news anchors and friends, or fellow art educators, and behavioral health colleagues and small business owners, and jumping headfirst back into answering that really, really, really common question nowadays, “Where are you from?” (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/z4hyu7C4Ffs

Hey hey! Here is the final part, or here is the final or the last section or leg of the conversation that Hadlie Dahlseid and I had been having ourselves a little while ago, where it was that we had been talking about being diagnosed and about identifying ourselves as autistic adults, or as neurodivergent or neuroatypical people, and how it was that that had gone in school and in particular friendships of relationships that it was that we had had! In this last chunk or piece of the overall conversation or did us soon, and in this last episode of this seventh season, Hadlie and I do talk about what it was like for me to present to and to train the Moorhead Police Department about how it is that they can engage individuals on the spectrum in a tense, or in a crisis situation! Gosh! Gosh that did go well there at their offices or at their division or branch! Gosh! Gosh! Gosh! It did! It did! It did! https://www.cityofmoorhead.com/departments/police (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/VurzU_ushLA

Hey you! Here is another section of the conversation that it was that Hadlie Dahlseid and myself did have some time ago now, about our own individual experience on the spectrum, and about the differences that can appear, or that can be noticed between boys and between girls who have been diagnosed or who do present with autism spectrum disorder! Sure! Sure! Sure! And in addition to Hadlie and me conversing about those sort of subjects, an exchange that I did have with a social work and behavioral health and wellness colleague named Mary Rymanowski can be viewed and listened to as well! It can! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/CHw9ofODHiE